Originally Posted by
mikea72580
Can you be re-instated to a BASE/CATEGORY where a vacancy has not been posted? For example DTW 320. Also, are you seat locked if you utilize a re-instatement? Anyone know the answer or where to find this language? (Other than, " look at the CBA")
There is the Transition Working Group Notepad 09-18 Filing of Vacancies that has some information.
But as to your question, that's intriguing. Reinstatement's are run with the AE's, not MDs or VDs. I would guess that if there is a lot of shuffling going on and now there are vacancies in that category and they intend to fill those vacancies then the reinstatement would kick in right along with how an AE would do it. FWIW, I went NYC ER to ATL ER when there were no vacancies posted on the AE.
It says:
A pilot who has been involuntarily displaced may be reinstated to the category from which he
was displaced ahead of pilots attempting to bid into that category if a vacancy is posted in that
category with a conversion period that begins within 180 days of the conversion date of the MD.
Reinstatements to a category will be awarded in seniority order, and are processed as part of the
AE bid awards. Available reinstatement rights are shown on the DBMS page for entering AE
bid preferences.
But this is all I could find on the PWA and I just want to ask what does
posted mean? Is posted when it's announced on paper or posted is any time a vacancy is created during the AE process and it is to be filled?
23.F. says:
12. A pilot who holds an MD will, without regard to the standing bids of senior pilots, be
reinstated to the category from which he was displaced if:
a. a vacancy is posted in such category and the earliest conversion date stated in the
posting is within the 180 day period following the conversion date of his MD,
b. his standing bid indicates a request for such reinstatement, and
c. such vacancy has not been filled by reinstatement of a pilot senior to him who was
also awarded an MD from such category.
Whatever you do check the box to say you desire reinstatement.