IronCityBlue
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Your pipeline patrol pilot won't get hired as he has no experience to fly a 777. Just as a kid clerking on The Exchange floor won't be a Market Maker on Wall Street.
The industry will level itself off and when an airline screws it's pilots, they can go elsewhere without worrying about taking a 70% pay cut.
Grandfather the pilots today and start this system next month. In 10 years this will be a totally different industry and you'll almost be able to consider our careers as "professional."
-NYB
That's why I said 20 years ago. That same pilot could then go to a regional (have you seen some of the regional hiring mins lately?) where he would instantly become an RJ Captain with zero turbine experience according to your hypothetical. Then, getting 1000 PIC turbine in one year or so, would meet the mins and if he was well connected he could get on with a major. Now he uses his 25 years of "seniority" to outbid everyone. Like I said, that is the dumbest idea ever and will NEVER happen.
Even if you made it military/121/union seniority its still not fair. It matters where you get hired. Luck always plays a part, but many people work very hard to get hired at particular airlines because they believe in them and many times that pays off big time. Sometimes it does not. But if you choose wisely, and with some luck, there is no way you are going to let someone waltz into your airline that you've been working at for 25 years and jump ahead of you because they spent a total of 26 years wherever else.
Thankfully we have zero chance of an idea like yours ever coming to fruition.