Originally Posted by
Flyboy68
I'm all for the seniority system, but it's far from perfect. Imagine this scenario.
You get hired on at a regional, your seniority number in class is either determined by your SSN, age or whatever. So Joe Blow is a couple months older than you or his SSN is higher, and is one number senior to you.
Joe Blow goes to the line and bids reserve a lot because he lives in base and likes the time off. Meanwhile, you are flying every trip you can get so you can upgrade as soon as possible. You get the required hours to upgrade to CA and do so, meanwhile Joe Blow only has 500 hrs. Joe Blow finally gets the remaining time to upgrade a year later and upgrades to CA, and bumps you from your base, although you've been a CA for a year now, and busted your ass to get there. Same class, upgraded much earlier, but still get screwed.
That's the system we all signed up for. It sucks, but I don't have tons of sympathy for someone who will get it back in the next vacancy.
I do feel bad and very sympathetic for people who went to an airline for a base for it to close and now they have to make a decision to move or start over with someone else.