Originally Posted by
SSlow
Is it a terrible idea because it's bad for you on an individual level, or are there actual reasons for why this would be terrible for the industry as a whole?
It's not a personal jab, but I'm just curious why you feel that way.
Why should a pilot's sweat equity at an airline be thrown away as soon as some other pilot who was at a competing airline that went out of business all of a sudden have someone come ahead of them at their own airline? That makes no sense. Maybe give them credit for their length of serive in their new hire class placement, but not just fly at Brand X for 20 years and then when they go out of business get to hop over to United etc and be a 777 CA because they have seniority and push down pilots that have been waiting there to upgrade.
There is an integration framework in place for mergers already that works fine. All other new hires start out at the bottom like we have been doing the last 98 years of airline pilot hiring.