squeakyunclean
I don’t really know what you mean by ‘transparency’.
I don’t know if I am in total agreement with your reasoning.
Date of joining is not being used just for redundancies as you say.
Captains are being made redundant against first officers that are being kept on, although these first officers joined the company later. So that’s the first inconsistency and disregard for LIFO.
I am ‘at risk’ and I know first officers not ‘at risk’ (of redundancy) that are junior to me.
Captains, as long as they accept redundancy, are being taken back by the company with the original date of joining and other first officers are being laid-off. That’s the second inconsistency of LIFO being applied.
So in effect LIFO is being used for demotion and not for redundancy.
So the other question is:
What are they making redundant? Is it pilots or captains and first officers, or just captains?
As I said earlier on this thread:
400 pilots – 100 pilots = 300 pilots. (LIFO).
300 pilots / 2 = 150 captains + 150 first officers. (Captains Seniority List).
I say it again is not right and therefore not fair.
Next question: Is it legal?
That I think I better ask a lawyer in employment law that specializes in aviation related matters.
I think they are better informed that most pilots.
