Originally Posted by
Itsajob
The line cutting argument is why a brand seniority list wouldn’t work. The military pilot serves for 15-20 years, multiple long deployments, hazardous conditions, massive amounts of training and leadership development. The civilian pilot starts the same time at a regional airline, receives good training, and builds the necessary experience to start at the legacy. They both took different paths to get to the same point, a new hire class at a legacy. The military pilot isn’t cutting in line, and the civilian pilot didn’t take the easy route. Requiring military pilots to start at the bottom of the regional ranks after serving a 20 year career would be unacceptable.
It could work. Just either in a way that favors or disfavors military pilots. The reasons a common list happens or doesn’t happen will have nothing to do with the interests of military pilots. That’s all I’m trying to say.
Not that they aren’t an important detail...but it’s a detail to be worked out not an argument for or against the idea (kind of like the issues of legacy children or experienced expat captains or 135/ACMI legacy hires). All could be dealt with in favorable or unfavorable ways if the overall sentiments were to enact a common list.