Originally Posted by bcrosier

Bit by bit, we've ultimately been losing ground over for at least two if not three decades now. As the old saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result - I can find no other way to look at how pilots continue to do business than this.

I don't image creating a national seniority list would be as difficult as it was to create a pilot union in the first place - the real question is whether the current pilots have the mettle to do so. Sadly, it appears that the fortitude for such an undertaking is almost completely lacking, hence why I suspect until some outside force intervenes we will continue to see the decline of the airline pilot profession.