I really don't want to get involved in BA politics but why does anyone think that the basic seniority policy of Last In/First Out would not hold up in a court of law?
In companies that have such a system, every single pilot signs a contract to the extent that they acknowledge such a system.
How else could you organise redundancies etc etc?
This is not a business like the dog-eat-dog commodity traders in the city who make an obscene amount of money on somebody else's back or else end up in jail in Singapore.
We are professional pilots who spend our lives transporting people and freight around the world in the nearest thing that is possible to total safety.
It is important to all of us that we know where we stand in the order of things. If things start to go wrong then your "number" is very, very important.
Mind you, my seniority number meant nothing when Laker went down the pan but I did get to be No.1 on a subsequent seniority list before I retired. Being No.1 on the list meant nothing either for by the time they got down to me there was nothing left!
Last edited by JW411; 3rd August 2006 at 16:43.