Originally Posted by
Khantahr
To each their own. I've operated under both systems and I vastly prefer seniority based. It's not even close, I never want to go back to first come first serve, and that was true even as a new hire.
At Alaska you can't have a life outside of work to succeed at manipulating your schedule via trades on reserve or picking up work. You have to sit on your home computer with fast internet to succeed and constantly refresh the website to pick anything up. Somehow, we have gone back to a culture similar to when pilots only had land lines and rotary phones. Even though we have all this amazing technology.