Originally Posted by
Mason32
Sounds like another good reason for a national list.... seniority as an airline pilot.... not as an AA pilot, Delta Pilot, NW Pilot... in other words seniority portability based on date of hire as an airline pilot.... much like other unionized professions, not trades. Could be worked much like the screen actors guild... each airline paying to the union, and the union providing health insurance, benefits, retirement.... all portable in case you leave through BK, sale, merger... whatever.
Great idea! Why don't we have a National List for everything?
Let's have a National Mortgage Seniority list so when you or I default on our loans we'll get the help we "deserve"... Oh, wait a second - we are doing that already...
Maybe we should merge all of our airlines into two huge, preferable government run entities and call them Peoples Passenger Airline and Peoples Cargo Airline...
You won’t have to worry about making any choices since you’ll be on this ‘National Seniority’ list as soon as you solo in a Super Cub… All pilots on the National Pilot Seniority list, all flight Attendants on the National Flight Attendant Seniority list, all janitors on the National Janitor Seniority list, etc, etc…
All the problems will be solved and we’ll be able to focus on giving each other hugs and singing kumbaya songs instead of making rational decisions, such as trying to determine which airline might have the best long term chances of survival, etc, etc… Why think? Let the government do it for us!
While we are at it, lets get rid of our Congress and make it a Peoples Congress; screw elections, we don't need them because we can trust our politicians... Then we can exchange our green backs for the Roubles... Wait a second, maybe we are heading in that direction already?
