Originally Posted by
Meme In Command
Dude, stop trying to attack me via my upgrade. It doesn't make anything I said less true. I'm not throwing a pity party for myself. I'm highlighting the truth: As much as we wanna blame the company for this, you can't ignore the fact that no amount of hired schedulers will fix the bottleneck pilots are creating via slip usage. If you bought into the narrative that seniority entitles a few to implode the coverage ladder for the rest, them let's agree to disagree.
Originally Posted by
ancman
Now you’re conflating your desire to flatten seniority with a completely separate topic.
The “slip bottleneck” was 100% created by management via lousy decision making. Pilots of ALL seniority ranges have blanket slips in with AA on. As much as you want to believe the myth that 23M7 payments are only going to the top of the seniority list, it is simply not true. Trying to blame management’s issues on senior pilots is delusional.
Your upgrade is relevant to the discussion because you continually act as if the seniority system is stacked against you, through no fault of your own. We’re not going to change longstanding industry practice to suit your personal choices.
He's not attacking you meme. He simply points out that by your decision you effectively lowered your own seniority. That was your decision.
Now you want some sort of seniority undermining concession to make it better for you. That affects many pilots, many who decided opposite of you to remain an FO and get more out of that seniority.
You can move back to FO or accept your decision. stop trying to undermine seniority here as it stands just because you moved yourself to a crappier situation seniority wise.