Originally Posted by
alex67500
It might be difficult to justify to their respective pilots' unions, but I've been wondering for a little while why other airlines don't provide a "status" or "seniority" match to BA pilots. That would be quite a shake-up in the industry but maybe they need it, and avoid the "tied-in" for life issues which seem to stifle pilot recruitment competition...
If you're talking about one of the aforementioned LCCs, wouldn't that be a bit of a morale killer for those newish FOs busy trying to climb the seniority ladder, whilst living with this transience, base changes, poor financial Ts and Cs etc? I am guessing that it would at best be neutral for the hiring ability of those carriers and at worst be actually detrimental.
That notwithstanding, I agree that as an outsider it seems a weird and anachronistic system at times.