Ignore Rainboe. Every airline does not use Last in First Out. When BA bought Dan-Air in the last recession they just kept the pilots who where flying the aircraft they wanted to keep. The 3500 pilots in BA (most are Palpa members) did nothing to help, so BA management got it's way. The result was that the longest serving pilot was made redundant with minimum legal cash redundancy pay-off, and newest pilot who had been in the company 3 months was kept on - he is now a Captain with BA on the 757!