You know what? FLOPS management does indeed reward for performance. Do you know how they measure performance? Average legs per day. Do you know who has the most legs per day? The management suck-ups that are flying broken airplanes, fly over duty, answer their phones during rest etc. (you get the picture)

Looks like you'd fit right in.

Look sonny, the airline biz requires seniority. Sure, the system has its flaws and people slip through the cracks. If an airline has a good and honest training program, this issue is mitigated. However, without seniority, it exposes the system more to politics and ass kissers. There would be many more Captains that shouldn't be flying airplanes at all and many more career FO's that should be Captains if it wasn't for seniority. Merit based systems work better with much smaller groups like corporate flight departments. With large groups like airlines, a merit based system would be a fiasco.

I can see how a junior FO is against seniority.....you'd do anything to step out of line and get ahead, wouldn't you?


You'll learn......eventually.....one can hope.