Originally Posted by FangsF15

I’ll bet your last 4 didn’t begin with a 0… 😉

As someone whose did, I respectfully disagree. I was the second oldest in my class, but had the second worst SSN. It’s small potatoes in the long run, but I would have loved to have avoided the -88.
Almost every other airline from LCC to Legacy does it by age. That is the most fair. Younger pilots have decades to make up for it. Agree that by hours is dumb though, since (as a fighter guy with almost as many sorties as hours) military fighter guys are at a particular disadvantage with short, but densely packed flights.

Not that any of it matters…