Originally Posted by jamesd

It's because its not a vacancy. Your dealing with displacements. Colgan couldn't displace PNC but they could displace Mesaba because Mesaba was over there number and they did. PNCL did not get displaced by colgan that got displaced by more senior PNCL pilots from JFK. Remember this was a net loss of captain slots on the 200. Colgan was able to keep their seats they had because of how seniority works.
once you have a seat its yours until someone can kick you out by a displacement. With the BLOCH ISL it addressed quotas and myself including thought that it meant you had to maintain those levels but that's only really applies when we increase staffing. If there was a vacancy for 200 positions all would go to PNCL because their below their quota. Just like how junior some of the 900 slots went to mesaba because of the quota.


In reality though were all just buying time. We are going to 81 airplanes and the company is in deep. They still don't know how to fix this mess. Also remember to keep in eye on the mesaba quota and see how junior the 900 slots go. However those are 2004 hires. Its amazing to me how one may think they got screwed in integration to later find out they made out pretty good.