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angelicm3 05-25-2006 03:24 PM

Seniority question
 
Hi all

I keep hearing that seniority in the airlines is everything, but I don’t have the smallest idea on how that works. If I change airlines, do I lose my seniority? If you go to SkyWest or another airline, do you start off with the first year pay?

Thank you all.

HSLD 05-25-2006 03:41 PM


Originally Posted by angelicm3
Hi all

I keep hearing that seniority in the airlines is everything, but I don’t have the smallest idea on how that works. If I change airlines, do I lose my seniority? If you go to SkyWest or another airline, do you start off with the first year pay?

Thank you all.

Yes, and Yes.

angelicm3 05-25-2006 03:49 PM

that sucks

fr8rcaptain 05-25-2006 04:47 PM

yes it does:p

joel payne 05-25-2006 05:16 PM

Nature of the beast, I suppose. That's why pilots get so upset when executives come and go, while the pilots are there for the duration, unless they want to start over again at the bottom.

flyerNy 05-25-2006 05:44 PM

Its always nice to know that if your company tanks you will be on the bottom of some list again somewhere else.

as737700 05-25-2006 10:18 PM


Originally Posted by angelicm3
that sucks

haha...yeah:)

Flatspin7 05-26-2006 05:11 AM


Originally Posted by flyerNy
Its always nice to know that if your company tanks you will be on the bottom of some list again somewhere else.


Opposed to the other option where some one has put in years of service at a company only to have some one move in senior to them just because their company tanked... or even worse just because they decided to switch companies.

Seniority is everything... Get it early and try to find ways to knock off those senior to you... (feed them lots of cheesecake and pizza, convince them that its a great idea to barrel roll a 737, or bet the capt $50 to walk into the terminal riding a Harley buck naked with out a helmet!) :)

rickair7777 05-26-2006 02:03 PM


Originally Posted by Flatspin7
Opposed to the other option where some one has put in years of service at a company only to have some one move in senior to them just because their company tanked... or even worse just because they decided to switch companies.

Seniority is everything... Get it early and try to find ways to knock off those senior to you... (feed them lots of cheesecake and pizza, convince them that its a great idea to barrel roll a 737, or bet the capt $50 to walk into the terminal riding a Harley buck naked with out a helmet!) :)


I think it was a DAL FO a few years ago who did a statistical analysis involving motorcycle safety, seniority, and upgrade times...

The end result was that he calculated that if every FO at DAL bought their captain a motorcycle, the net average improvement in FO seniority (due to motorcycle accidents) would provide a 5-1 return on investment for the cost of the motorcycle...

copcar1988 05-26-2006 02:37 PM

When you gain enough seniority and upgrade to captain, will you have to do reserve again as a captain?


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