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Call it misinformation if you like, but as sjm stated this happened before at bmi baby. Captains, of which I was one, were made redundant because our positions were no longer needed, whilst first officers in the same bases and captains and first officers at other bases, who were below us on the seniority list, retained their jobs.
So once again, it is a position which is made redundant not a person, under uk employment law, so if flybe make q400 pilots redundant they cannot then give Q400 left or right seats at those bases to more senior pilots, if they did they would lose in court.
It happened in bmi baby and BALPA did not offer any assistance to take the company to court for those made redundant with disregard to seniority, because they did not believe they could win. And in that case LIFO was written into the pilots contract.
As I said, balpa should have been negotiating a redundancy policy whilst business was good and the company making money, the basic rule of negotiation is to negotiate from a position of strength, and at the moment BALPA are not in that strong position.