Originally Posted by Sunvox

In general I am in agreement with this sentiment, but I would add one caveat. History has taught us that our industry can undergo long periods of stagnation. Is it fair for someone caught at the bottom of the seniority list during such a period to spend a decade or more on reserve?

Now mind you I'm just "spit balling" ideas here off the top of my head so perhaps there are good reasons not to consider such ideas, but I for one would approve of some system like what the flight attendants had. Don't know if they still have such a system, but when people ended up on reserve after a certain period of time then reserve went into rotation and senior people ended up on reserver once every 3 months. I would make the trigger period quite long as in 5 years or more, but none the less I see longterm sitting on reserve because of industry trouble as a real issue.