Originally Posted by
Pakagecheck
Tony, for some reason I thought the bid came out, age change law in effect, bid cancelled and then reissued and closed then there was the DC-10 excess bid. It not happen this way?
There have always been excess bids when airplanes were being retired. The DC-10 was no different.
The big difference, and the Excess Bid to which I am referring here, is when an Excess Bid was held to allow over-60, under-65 Second Officers to leave those seats for any seat their seniority would hold. That bid contained -1 Excesses in most of the other seats so that every DC-10 engineer that went to the left seat of a wide-body kicked the most junior Captain out of that same seat. That Excess bid came after the age change.
It was a management decision.
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