Thanks for the info...
However, some of the guys I'm talking to say that the retirement age will have to go up from 55 to 60 in Oct 2006.
This will, apparently, make the entire seniority system stagnate for 5 years (no retirements = no recruitments).
I've been told that you can therefore add 5 years onto all the current predictions i.e. 5 years extra cr*p at the bottom of the seniority list, 17 years to shorthaul command and 22 years to longhaul command.
Apparently this is how long it used to take about 10 years ago... is that true?