Hawk eye, thanks for your insight.
As stated before I and a vast majority of crew DO NOT want to abolish the bidding system, we simply need some major changes, such as capping!
The majority of senior crew are not lazy or selfish, they are only taking advantage of system that exists, actually when it comes to flying with crew I find the senior crew in GENERAL very professional and hard working! I did say in GENERAL !.
We certainly don't want a system like they have in QANTAS UK or the bases, I would rather keep what we have than have no bidding system at all and be at the mercy of the corrupt schedulers!
This is where some people on this forum misunderstand, we want changes to the system not to abolish it.
At the moment we are talking about the selfish minority that are hogging up all the desirable trips, but I clearly remember the JFK slips, I never got a look in as it was always the same people doing them, they simply moved to regular LAXand SFO. One was not enough, they had to have it all!