Originally Posted by
johnso29
Well come back down to junior land and you'll get a taste of reality. Many junior guys were kicked around a lot between the APA & AE system, especially once DAL decided to park our 747-200's, then move 320's out of MSP, & start parking DC9's. If I told you before the AE results were published that a pilot in the bottom 99% of the seniority list would be displaced from DTW DC9 to NYC 7er would you have believed that?
Johnso29, you bring up a good point.
Question for everyone, do you think it was smart for them to put the most junior people on the 7ER? Most likely there will be some displacements in the system before these folks are fully trained and those folks will be displaced again, thus trained and no benefit to the company.
The DAL new hire placement system and the AE system masks what the real seniority level is to be able to hold and bid into a particular base/aircraft. There are folks in categories whose seniority is too low for them to be awarded an AE into a category like the 7ER, but, their category isn't shrinking so there's no chance for them to be mandatory or voluntarily displaced. The only reason why a lot the junior folks are in categories like NYC7ER is because DAL put them there. I am not complaining, just pointing out a flaw in the system.