Originally Posted by
Short Bus Drive
Nope. In the contract (old and new). However it is an equipment lock with some caveats.
Also, I believe there might be some uhires thant the lock expired.
Could be wrong.
I think you're wrong.
These openings are NEW base openings for CAL to UAL and vice versa, thus a seat lock would not apply.
Did you try and bid to a new seat across the aisle?
Were you unable?
I'm pretty sure if you wanted to bid any of the bases that weren't available to you previously, you could do so. The only restriction was there needs to be a vacancy.
Anyone on the CAL side could have bid any of these vacancies, even U-hires.
There weren't hardly any 2ndary vacancies on the CAL side and won't be for some time because no one in their right mind currently in a CAL hub would bid a UAL hub and lose 50-60% seniority in base unless they were a commuter and could go home by bidding there.
Take a look at those that moved and about 90% of the people moving were L-UAL moving into vacancies, most of them moving into L-CAL bases.
Even U-hires, why would they bid A320 and be the junior guy on the totem pole when they can bid 737 in the same base and be at 50-80%?