Apparently Qantas cadets have a Qantas Mainline seniority and when their time is up in Qantaslink they just slide across to Mainline with their already accumulated years of service where as the Qantaslink pilot has to resign give up the years of seniority and start at the bottom... in effect the captain who trained the cadet could be come junior to him/her if he was selected... interesting concept, it should really encourage the Qantaslink pilots to do an outstanding job training the cadits...