PKB
if most of you east pilots had any idea of the situation you were in ....you would have left and found another job....
Quite a few did resign and go elsewhere.
And I am not an 'east pilot' but am very familiar with the situation.
Also, if you had close to 15-20 yrs with the company and a family, I assume you would have just upped and gone back to New Zealand and started over? Not likely. Golden handcuff and all that.
The funny thing is listening to the various rationales of who should get hosed and why all in the name of 'fairness'. The facts are most pilots are not very altruistic since they know they live or die by seniority. As you probably well know, 1 number can be a lifetime difference. I know. I was once 1 number from a wide body bid in base and when the dust settled, I never got close to a widebody again except commuting to bottom reserve, something I was not willing to accept.
The only thing I can say with absolute confidence is I am glad I am not on either list.