Originally Posted by
NineGturn
I appreciate you have an opinion, and I respect that. But it's just an opinion. If a merit based system is good enough for every other profession out there, including fighter pilots, soldiers and police officers...then it's good enough for airline pilots.
The merit based system doesn't work also. I have seen it where politicking takes over and you get the people with the least leadership skills moving up. Why do you think many officers were shot in Vietnam and not always by the enemy? I have had my hands tied as a commander from your merit based system and my nephew had the same issues in law enforcement. I doubt your way will be any better and maybe worse. Utopia does not exist.