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Airsupport
so this brings us back to my question earlier that no one answered. When it comes time to furlough do we do it out of seniority order to maintain quotas? Our JCBA is very clear on how furloughs are to be handled. Does the JCBA trump the arbitrated ruling? Is it possible to get furloughed while there are people junior to you on the Q simply because they have to maintain a certain amount of people from colgan on the Q?
For example lets say I am 900 on the new seniority list and fly the 200 at pinnacle. Lets also say the most junior guy on the Q is a 2000 number. Now when the 200's get parked and i am displaced would i be able to go to the Q or would I get furloughed because they have to maintain the quota of captains.
Quotas are for Captains, as you had stated, so a scenario where a 200 or a Q CA would be furloughed assumes that all the FOs junior on the list have been furloughed as well. This would be a bad scenario.
However, in you scenario you would not be able to go to the Q if Colgan was still under their Q fence because of the arbitration language which states that you can not be "awarded or displaced" into a Q unless Colgan maintains the fence quota. I do not know if that would decided who gets furloughed but it would decide if that 200 pilot could fly the Q or not. Also, that same 200 9E PCL pilot would not be allowed to fly the Saab either for the next 5 years.