raven11, how can you make the following statement
we now have some Freighter Captains that were appointed out of seniority
when every eligible pilot senior to those now-freighter-captains was offered the position? That is NOT "out of seniority."
Just because the freighter pay was, and is, lower doesn't make a pilot who upgrades to captain on the freighter into a pilot who is upgrading "out of seniority."
Almost all airlines in the US have different pay rates for different airplanes. Someone relatively low on the seniority list being able to become a captain on a plane with a lower pay rate (and maybe at a base that is less desirable, such as Newark, New Jersey) because no one senior to him wanted to do that job for that pay is never labeled as someone who took the upgrade "out of seniority." This mentality at Cathay makes me
