Originally Posted by
Cruz5350
Have you tried being more senior? You can always downgrade! I like redeyes they’re efficient! Delta and United are hiring… You knew the movement here was slow! You can always go get a 9-5 job… not me though this is the easiest job in the world I make 90% more than most of the country so you should suck it up. Commuting is a choice.
All things said on the Alaska page and flight deck from my time browsing and working there. I’m missing out on tons but you get the gist. Now to be fair some of those same things are uttered at Delta too and I just shake my head.
But still it's fundamentally a seniority based industry.
What's the fix? Rotate assignment choice, take turns being #1 to bid? Maybe dual seat qualify everybody and rotate between left and right seats? Start all new hires at the top of the list and then you become less senior as you age?
The problem with any big structural changes is that the senior people already payed their dues and are not going to give up the QOL they earned over decades. Yeah I know you can trot out some grandad who got hired at as a legacy at age 24, upgraded at 26, never furloughed, 3 months total lifetime reserve, yada, yada but that's not the lived experience for the vast majority of the people in the industry.
What's the proposed fix? That's remotely tolerable to the people who will vote on it?