Originally Posted by
Justdoinmyjob
Great, so we start flying domestic ops now with three pilots? Otherwise, putting new hire MPLs only on Oceanic Ops and removing one of the more senior FOs would be a seniority abrogation. It would work with LBP, but not the way we do it.
I don't know about domestic ops, but now that you mention it, with the new FAR's, they could probably do some funky scheduling things with a MPL on a domestic crew.
But you are correct, it would be an abrogation, and we'd need to agree to it for it to happen. Impossible you say? We agreed to terminate our pension, to outsource half of our domestic flying...
I'm just playing devils advocate. I think Bar has the right idea, it's an idea that ALPA shoved aside in favor of other remunerations at a time when they needed to show unity. I don't know if the past two decades have taught us all a lesson or not. I guess we'll see.