Originally Posted by
Cyio
to the first part, yes. It already happens. We have military pilots skipping the line already and getting preferential interviews. So I don’t see how this is any different. Basically every military new hire now is in theory pushing us down one more number as we will never be able to get that spot.
In regards to the second, that happens now. I look at seniority as every single person hired ahead of me essentially is one more number down the list.
Yeah, but doesn’t that destroy the “allure” if any, of having a seniority number? If your number goes down with every military or street hire or WO guy/gal that gets out of sequence hired at the major, and up when every guy/gal at the WO gets hired at some other major, there isn’t any meaningful difference between what you got now and what you are proposing. What you are proposing is a distinction without a difference.
All you are really doing is putting lipstick on the existing pig and trying to convince people she is beautiful, yet nothing changes. you won’t go to mainline one minute quicker than you would have anyway and your alleged “seniority number” is actually written in smoke, and still progresses - up OR DOWN - only at the whim of mainline HR.