Originally Posted by
Avinthenews
That's applying the way people behave today as a result of being in a seniority system to being out of it.
Why do banks, law firms, hospitals not work this way? Because they would be absolute crap and have the dumbest most useless employees in short time, losing money, losing cases, and killing people.
Seniority causes people to try and buck the system and airlines profit from it.
We already tried the no seniority upgrade approach with freighter commands. Anyone in the company could do a freighter command, no seniority there but you took a 50% pay cut to do it. Dozens of guys knocked down the door to the 3rd floor to do it. We'd sell our own mother to get command as early as possible.