172_Captain wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:22 pm
Seniority is BS. There’ll always be people ahead and behind you. Who cares.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But it's certainly not BS.
Sure there will always be people ahead of you and below you.
Where your number will matter is when layoffs happen or the industry slows, and that guy who is six months Sr to you ends up being your Captain for the next decade while you're sitting in the right seat.
It's even started to happen again. I got upgraded at a year and a half at Jazz. I've been grazing the bottom of the list for the last year. Now upgrades have slowed and someone hired even a month after me is still sitting in the right seat and might be for a while.
Keep in mind, I did my time in 703. I'm not some instructor or college hire. And when I was hired at Jazz you NEEDED 1500 hours, an ATPL and 500MPIC. Given how things have changed, I'd say get your 1000 hours in the right seat of a king air and move on.
And if you're stuck with a bond, you have no one to blame but yourself for signing it. I've never been bonded, and if I was I would have had zero issues breaking it and paying my way out if it meant a seniority number 6-12 months sooner.
To each their own.