Originally Posted by SI
It won't matter if past DEC policies resulted in serious damage to recruiting or even some isolated instances of lunatics being hired ahead of qualified F/O's. You gotta put bums in the seats, even if it disenfranchises a good portion of the F/O's already working at the company. DEC's have been used and will be used to mitigate poor planning and management if it is deemed to be an acceptable policy by the office types. Don't for a second think that YOUR career aspirations or even the beliefs of recruitment pilots will be taken into account. It's all about $.
For once SI I agree with you here. It is ECONOMICS 101.................... We DO NOT WANT and DO NOT NEED DECs