This new seniority based trip trading will stop that behavior to a certain point. However, once a trip is within 12 hours of push, it's up for grabs to the fastest fingers, so once again the mafia will still have a certain amount of viability to grab trips before most of us.
And it wasn't just on the 757/767 fleet either. We CONSISTENTLY had the same 4 junior guys (around 85%) on the 737 fleet getting the premium 10 hour turns to PVR and other tropical destinations that I couldn't get at 15% in base.