shlittlenellie
LIFO is NOT allowed to be the only,sole deciding factor in making redundancies anymore.
Virgin and BALPA recently worked out a scheme that included seniority as the MAIN factor (read as date of joining), but it also included "qualifications" (i.e. Company TRE/LTC etc - which no junior FO was of course) and also allowed for live disciplinaries to be taken into account.
So, BALPA can tell you what they like, but seniority has just had a Horse and Cart driven through it at Virgin and it'll be the same elsewhere. Believe me.