Originally Posted by
More Bacon
Well, to be fair, the whole reason for negotiating this LOA was so that those "adversely affected" are affected based on seniority, and not on an arbitrary and opaque basis.
Naturally, junior guys who were able to tweak the system and get better deals (often at odds with their seniority) are in for some discomfort. Frankly, I'm glad that the system will more accurately address seniority.
Seniority should rule, Tab, don't you agree?
No one was "tweaking" the system. Furthermore, I have no problem with seniority weighing more heavily but as Tab pointed out, if you are in a fat category, I fear that a few of us are going to be doing virtually all the work all month long. Should a junior guy be either sitting SC or on a trip almost every day of availability while the top 10-20% of reserves do at most 3 SC's a month? 80 raw is pretty high in a lot of categories right now. That's my issue. The number should be more like 50-60 allowing a trip and a SC or two before we inconvenience a senior guy to go fly.