Originally Posted by
Jaded N Cynical
The company doesn't have chosen ones. To them it's like paying for a part. Why buy another one when they the one they already paid for is working fine. They already paid for the pilot to be trained.....why would they want to train another if they don't have to? Managment looks at numbers, metrics and anything they can measure. To say they prefer one group over another is plain silliness. They treat us all as cost centers and replaceable.
If your seniority can hold captain 737 then bid it. Between new aircraft deliveries and retirements there will be plenty of vacancies.
I love your Forum name by the way, awesome...
Overall you are correct, but there are some games being played too. To deny that is silliness:-)
And that's just the point, some aren't even "working fine"---trained. Why violate the SLI O&A and train them, and possibly have them get displaced at a later date and spend more money training them again? Why not follow the SLI O&A and then you don't have to juggle manning and possibly expend funds to protect them....
You can bid something all you want. No vacancy, no award. But we will see. I hope you're right and I'm wrong (don't hear that much on a forum).
Dogg