Originally Posted by joethepilot

So we sign this LOA you're suggesting... and when they close the next Saab base... for ****s and giggles lets say its MSP(no i don't know anything)... you then expect the comany to absorb 80 secondary displacements just because they're allowed to do that now? Don't think so.

Also, if you haven't caught on yet, they could have absorbed every single one of those displacements if they wanted. Mr. Workman is notorious for putting out a "revised vacancy/realignment/award" right before the close, right after he runs everyone's current bid card through the computer. Ask some Mesaba guys, happens all the time. So if he wanted to absorb any secondary vacancies he would simply put out a revised realignment with an increase in the number of vacancies in the position he wanted to absorb. Yeah, it might cause a few voluntary moves into that position, but they can tell how many, and I guarantee you they run the numbers and change it to cost the least amount of dollars.

This is not the one aircraft type in each base type of airline anymore. vacancies/realignments/displacements are much more complicated than they were in the pinnacle world of old.