Originally Posted by
Scott Stoops
It is more than a bit foolish. The junior Den 737 Cap is almost 9000 on the list. That isn't going to hold. All of the Den 757 pilots (both F/O and Cap) can "hold" 737 Cap right now. That will change as they have to go somewhere.
On the last... the Cap "bids" already happened prior to the SLI. I'm 5000ish on the list and I didn't come close to holding Den Cap on the most recent bid. Less than a month prior to SLI that position went to a CAL pilot almost 4000 numbers junior to me. Welcome to forever reserve for those guys. They will not move up off reserve for a decade or more. That is if they don't get bumped back to 737 F/O in Denver which is really what they should be holding based on the SLI.
Remember Scott these are the same people that told us longevity was only a "consideration" which meant it didn't have to be used at all, just considered.
But you are right. There are guys who live in DEN and commute to Airbus Captains is SFO and LAX that are also waiting to get back to DEN. Not to mention about 400 DEN based 76T pilots who will all roll into guppy Captains if they could.