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Why are airline pilots not laterally mobile?
Asked by lilikoi (10105)
January 13th, 2010
In most industries when you want to switch companies you can do so without much difficulty and often with a raise in salary. With airline pilots, I’ve read that they are stuck because the industry does everything by seniority. For example: If you’re a senior captain at Airline A and decide to move to Airline B, you have to start over from the bottom of the ladder as a First Officer at Airline B simply because you are new to the company and have no seniority there. Why doesn’t seniority transfer and why don’t unions fight for this for their pilots?
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