Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Overstaffed applied to copilot positions. A lot of copilots will move up to Captain on this bid. There will be fewer overall copilots but its better to move the surpluses to Captains seats then the street. Surpluses are always carried by the company in the lower paid seats for obvious reasons.
That's a good point. If you add up recent announcements, they're neutral or better for the left seat. If you're an ER FO, you're still looking forward to improvements. The memo alludes to surpluses on NB CA positions, that they don't expect to create displacements.
They may also reduce backfilling, however.
One big factor is the number of backfills from the MRA's. I think they previously replaced only a few, and said they were just "starting the process", but limited by training slots. I had expected the process to continue. Was I misunderstanding something?