Originally Posted by nightflyer

the solution to all of this is a national seniority list.

You are awarded your lifetime seniority number on the day you acquire your atp.

Now you can change airlines as you please, and would be paid according to your seniority.

This would prevent the airlines from taking advantage of us, we could leave at will if we felt we had a bad contract, and take our seniority elsewhere. In this way, we would be more like free agents, and could sell our skills to the highest bidder.

You can discuss that while i go work.