Originally Posted by
Stagger Lee
The term senior is extremely relative, as the guys you are calling senior are in fact mid-level pilots escalated by default, as the truly senior pilots ran away with their retirement payouts.
That it just plain ridiculuous. By your deinition, a "senior" pilot is the oldest one. However a pilot reaches his seniority in a list is irrelevant. The mere fact that he is number 1 whether by retirement, firings of those above him or even premature death is irrelevant.