PS,
During the first two years of this airlines exsistence I would have agreed with your sentiments. Unfortunately though, about 2.5 years ago this pilot group stopped being "colleagues". The "I want mine now" group started buying rosters, or as you call it "privileged" rosters from the planning guys. Honestly I could not believe that was happening until one day I found a printed copy of a DECs roster. This guy had been with FZ maybe six months, but his roster had two commutable periods of time off, long stretches of 6 days off WITHOUT trip trades. All the while the guys who started this airline, the guys who flew the 25 hour rosters, sat 10 standbys a month for almost the first year of operations, were getting 8 days off with AM/PM shift changes in the SAME block of flights. Maybe one day when the airline stops growing something might change, but for now it is what it is and for good reason.