Originally Posted by
El10
I actually believe it or not that they have played this right. The 757s getting parked this year leave after the summer time. Thats when all the movement will start. The best way to manage this is to avoid secondary bumps at all costs. If you look at who is taking the 737 CA awards it is by far mostly guys coming off the 76T FO position. Around the end of July my guess is the bid will come out for the start of base balancing for the next summer schedule. Hopefully the CA positions go to guys coming off the 756/76T reducing the amount of bumps needed. Same will go on with the bus. The guys taking bus CA slots will more than likely come from the bus FO or 76T/756. In a perfect world you do all your upgrades and transition training Sep-May and new hires Jun-Aug.
This is exactly what the company planned for and it didn't work. The problem is that at this level (No longer a regional) very few people are looking for the first upgrade. A DEN guy is not going to commute to reserve as a guppy CA when he is a line holder and living in base. And I can't imagine anyone commuting on a transcend from LAX and SFO to be a CA in EWR.
So as they pull down DEN SFO and LAX 76T the pilots won't leave until they can hold guppy out west.
Also lets say they post 100 CA vacancies in SFO on the 737 and cut the 76T flying in half, the majority of those CA spots will be filled by current 76T CAs. Without the need for more 76T captains to backfill where does that leave the FOs? Sitting in base not getting used. No matter how you look at it when you park 130 airplanes you WILL have to bump.....so lets get on with it already and stop wasting money with 50+ TDYs a month.
Its not that yours or the companies plan is bad, It just only works when we are growing unfortunately we are shrinking.