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Old Mar 27, 2019, 7:58 pm
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Originally Posted by Catbert10
Randomly assigning crews to routes will lead to all kinds of unhappy crews. Hence a bidding process. Some FAs can try to get flights where they go home at night. Others get flights where they work the fewest days on the month but travel further. What other 'currency' could be used other than seniority? There are thousands of basically interchangeable FAs.
How about actual performance? I realize sometimes it's difficult to quantify, but if a FA gets mostly praises from pax he/she serves, shouldn't that FA deserve the opportunity to pick out routes as a reward??

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