Originally Posted by
756IAHFO
I am confused, I thought all of the junior/untrained 737 captains were going to displaced and there would be a new bid for all UAL pilots for those positions.
As far as I see, all of the CAL folks that got a captain bid in 1402 are still on the recent award.
Much of that is yet to be decided, although I think you're probably a bit confused about the time frame required for some of these things to occur. For there to be displacements of any type, there needs to a displacement notice. I suspect that will occur at some point in the next couple of months for the 767T fleets as the 757-200 starts to draw down. As that happens, those pilots will have displacement rights to go where they can hold.
I'm very familiar with Denver, so I'll use that as an example. There are about 120 767T Cap and 120 767T F/O's in Denver. ALL of the Cap's and about 100 of the F/O's can hold 737 Cap in Denver based on the junior man list. So that makes about 220 Denver pilots that could potentially attempt to go to DEN 737 CAP. Not all will, clearly, but many will. So let's say that 1/4 of them do. Roughly 55-60 pilots. Unless the base grows commensurately, there will be bumps off the bottom. As it stands now that will come from the very junior CAL awards that happened recently.
Who knows how management will handle it, but to assume that the basic premise of bumps likely happening is untrue before the displacement process has even started is denying reality.