And start over again on a new seniority list? Heh. The pax think they're locked in... I think they all (the majors) just need to fire everybody who has a reserved parking space at HQ and assign those jobs to the regular employees for thirty days at a time, like jury duty or an unpleasant deployment.
"Hi hon. Got my bid sheet back and it's worse than I thought. I gotta be VP of Marketing for August. Dang! Well, it could be worse. Some new-hire A&P got stuck with CEO."
As long as you didn't have to qualify in the simulator, the pilots would probably go for it.
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