Originally Posted by
texaspilot76
Get rid of seniority. Let the applicant negotiate his salary at time of hire. Base his promotion and pay off of performance evaluations.
That's just how things were done before ALPA was founded by Dave Behncke and a few others. Pay, working conditions, and flight safety were abysmal and pilots had no power to improve them. A full account is given in "Flying the Line" by George Hopkins.