Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
Colgan wants to have cake and eat it too? If it applies to vacancies, it should apply to displacements. And isn't it written pretty clear? "No pilot may be awarded or displaced... unless so and so maintains a minimum of x positions."
Actually.....it's Pinnacle guys, too. I'm a 6 year CA, and if the furloughs go like they say, I could be looking at the right seat again while junior XJ guys hold onto their left seats. It's not just Colgan anymore. I've got 500+ CAs below me in seniority. Cool, huh. By those numbers, I'd be "safe." Ooops. Less than 270 -200 CAs below me....
Pinnacle guys could get double screwed in all this: 9E FOs that got "jumped" in the SLI by Colgan guys didn't get that upgrade they thought was coming in a few months. Now, some of the 9E CAs that have been CAs for 5+ years could lose their seats, too.
Basically, this is what SHOULD be fair: quotas based on what proper staffing levels should be on the -200, not what they were on July 1st, 2010 because Pinnacle likes to short staff everything. For that fact, it should be based on proper staffing levels on the -900 as well. Then it's an even playing field. I'd say the same thing about the Q400 and the Saab, but management has run us into the ground so much, it's become a moot point.