Originally Posted by
Birddog
Bumps are based off of TABs not activated pilots. So if a TAB has been assigned under the SFO MOU they can bump the crap out of SFO.
I don't know how many of the 400 are left untrained to bump. But you're getting setup for an expensive lesson.
I find it funny how S-UAL pilots always explain it away when they are possibly about to be hosed. Wouldn't you rather see the TPA, UPA, SFO MOU, and ISL enforced?
I guess I don't know how bumps work for legacy CAL, but for legacy UA, you can only bump to a position that your seniority can hold. Since nobody had started or completed training for a 737 SFO assignment at the time the ISL was implemented (even if they had a TAB assignment) there aren't any pilots that are currently holding a SFO 737 assignment! On the UA side that would mean that anybody who was being bumped (for whatever reason) would not be able to bump to SFO 737. I could definitely see that the pilots that got the SFO 737 assignments would be eligible for a bump, I just don't see how they could then bump to SFO 737, since there are no pilots junior to them assigned there(since there are none at all assigned to a SFO 737 base) . Obviously I am not an expert, but I don't see how anybody could get a bump to an assignment that doesn't exist!
So, I would expect there will be a lot of bumps as you are speculating, but I still don't see how that is going to limit the number of SFO 737 bids that come out.