You might be right, but MON pilots don't run MON. If MON needed DEC then they would have done it. If they didn't, then they wouldn't. The pilots may have said something rude but it would have been irrelevant. There may well be a system in place in airlines that allows for identification of talent worthy of higher office, but as in all other businesses, this is not to the exclusion of rest of the world. Such waiting pools increase and decrease in size. It is the way of the business world.