not to burst your bubble, but it's never going to change... now that we're all one senority list, those of us who are already here have first dibs on whatever equipment or base there are openings for... the newhires get the rest.. they try to "change" anything and we'll strike...

(disclaimer... I'm not an ALPA nazi by any stretch of the imagination... but if I'm getting stuck with a crappy domicile I'll be damned if I let a newhire take something better than where I'm at...)