Originally Posted by rickair7777

The fundamental crux of the issue is should a junior CA be afforded special protection in system bids over FO's who are senior to him? Just because "Captain"?

Why not extend that to domicile as well, since it's reasonably more disruptive to one's life if you have to move the whole family to another city... as opposed to taking a paycut that drops you from the top 5% of earners down to top 10%.

You could argue the case, and the company might even prefer it since it would turn two training events into zero training events and keep the guy higher on the longevity scale in the right seat.

But fundamentally that's not the precedent for how seniority works in our era. Aside from special cases in a merger like the Red Circle thing (I'm not even sure that was ever even triggered?).

I think most would be opposed.