Wouldn't a 'first-come-first-served' system be much fairer?
But that is, in fact, SENIORITY...! If I'm hired before you, I come before YOU in everything: Equipment bid, base bid, lines of flying bid, vacation bid . . . .
So Trossie, are you telling us that when you're a senior captain, you wouldn't mind to give up your X-mas vacation so that a junior captain can be home for X-mas? ...and as a senior captain, having bid daytime Honolulu trips, you wouldn't mind working the midnight Mexico City trips so that a junior captain may have those easy daytime Honolulu runs?
