Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
True, but....many airlines use age as the delineator for assigning SN. A 2 year seat lock is nothing to a mid 20 something. Further, when it comes to furlough, we work from the bottom up. So that SN, just one number, could mean all the difference. I never agreed with assignment of SN by SSN. It should and always should have remained by age. Oldest first. Always. That mandatory retirement age and all that....we're not FA s after all.
I don’t see why a pilot should inherently be furloughed before another pilot born the day before them. If that’s the case, why don’t we move this beyond the class date bucket? If it means “all the difference,” then why furlough a 50 year old new hire that started class this week and not the 23 year old who started last week? Or why not sort the pool by age and only ever take the oldest of the lot if their time is somehow more valuable than that of a younger pilot? Somehow age is only sacred within a single class…which doesn’t make sense