The current senior group in PAL is made up of crawl backs (another word for scab) or eskirols. Of course seniority is a lose word in PAL since they practice a point system. If your lucky enough to get pointed to, you move up or down depending how well your connected. I heard a rumour of one 744 FO who was promoted to Captain over other more qualified eskirols because his old man is a supreme court judge. He didn't make it past the V1 cut exercises though during the final check.