Originally Posted by
horrido27
case in point-
There is a friend of mine who is a late 99 LUAL Hire. He is currently a line holding 756 FO in EWR. He has not been recalled to LUAL (yet).
What happens once we have an ISL? There are going to be pilots who were and are senior to him on his (old) LUAL list.. but have not yet been recalled.
Aren't recalls based on vacancies? What happens when pilots get recalled to a position that isn't what they want or could/should be able to hold? And there are pilots junior to them sitting in a BES they want?!
Motch
Motch,
The only furloughs with any rights to a particular seat are the voluntary ones. Involuntary furloughs are recalled, regardless of their post ISL seniority, to unfilled vacancies (means they were offered to all active pilots, more or less, before the recall offer).
Remember, equipment bidding goes to the old UAL system under the new contract post seniority integration. Basically, a bid will be posted with the junior BES bids, they go unfilled, then recalls are offered for those slots. Takes about 30 days to do that evolution.
So you're correct, there could very well be a more senior guy that bypassed a CAL offer, gets/accepts a recall to a junior BES, and has guys junior to them on a more senior or preferred BES by virtue of having taken the TPA CAL job offer. Thats the way it is.
They will get a chance to bid any vacancy from that point forward. But, other than recall order, seniority plays no role in BES for a furlough recall assignment.
Frats
Lee