Originally Posted by
NineGturn
Here...read this post several pages back....
I would take it a step further and eliminate hiring seniority altogether so regional airlines can draw upon the large pool of available experienced pilots paying them salaries commensurate with their experience...reducing training costs and forcing regionals to compete with each other for pilots.
The fundamental problem with any tinkering to a seniority system is that you always have the guys at the very top who would be negatively impacted by any sort of benefits / compensation flattening. They have a strong incentive to stonewall any effort to take away the benefits they enjoy, especially when they had to endure being at the bottom of the seniority list to get there.