I suspect you're on an island with this opinion, Sink r8. Let's not forget that the entire airline system - seniority - has almost nothing to do with deserving anything. It's all about time on property. Time on earth (the reciprocal of time left with the company) is most analogous to the rest of airline career determinants. It's the only deciding factor that most (yourself excluded) at least think has some logic and purpose behind it. Basing seniority on performance on a cog test makes even less sense (to me) than the randomness of SSN.