Justify it however you want, it's still paying senior pilots to fly even less than they were (read: in many cases going from some to none) while putting more reserve flying on the backs of junior pilots. While "seniority" is being used to justify this change you don't see the same thing on the line holder side: Senior line holders don't get to take as many GSs as they desire, they go to the end of the line after getting one; they don't get every week of vacation for 5 different weeks throughout the year before other pilots get their bids on on their 2nd vac bid, etc., etc. But yet we hear seniority used to throw junior guys under the bus. Whatever. I'd rather they just be honest with us and say, you're the junior guys and we couldn't give a rat's @$$ how much suck you have to deal with.