Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
I disagree with the closely matches part of your statement. It did match for the original few BAT bids but now that they are involuntarily displacing 76T to 756 it no longer matches what seniority should be.
I would be willing to bet that if the company put out a vacancy bid for 100 756 EWR they would fill all 100 spots.
Why would they put out a bid if there are enough butts to fill the seats within the fleets? IOW, there are enough 76T and 756 pilots to fly the block hours, they just need them rearranged a bit. That's how it would work if the fleets were merged, which is what BAT is all about. Now, did they game the system by filling massive 76T bids unnecessarily? Probably. But they could have just jacked it up. Kinda like the ORD 747 thing? "Let's close the base and bump everybody....oops, let's re-open it. my bad"