Hawkeye…
I can understand your point of view but unlike you I do not trust the current faaa leaders as they appear to have their own agenda just as the previous ones did.What have we achieved from voting YES for the JFK issue……absolutely nothing !!!!!!! But more importantly what have we lost…potentially a lot ,only time will tell…
Before you change the current system you have to make sure that the new system is better and is just not an opportunity for the company and those who tacitly support them whilst appearing to do the exact opposite.
Let’s look at ways to refine the seniority system first to see if we can achieve a better outcome before we dismantle a system that we all know the company would love to destroy.
In other words if the company wants to rid themselves of the seniority system and replace it with another ,it is not because the new system is better for us.
The company has on a number of occasions used the old divide and conquer routine. A perfect example of this is the system of demand days where the company can ruin any roster with total impunity. Less senior crews get clobbered with more and more of these days .If the rosters were run simply on seniority they would be ready in just a few days not more than a week as with the BP 243 ,they get junior crew so upset that they want to get rid of seniority.
Let’s not just give the company something they obviously want ,let’s come up with a system that we want and one that works for the majority .
the tech crew did a similar thing to stop the so called pacific barons from doing back to back LA trips and limited them to a specific number..why can't we do the same and have a limit of say 2 trips to the same destination per roster...just one idea