So.. does the plot thicken?
Earlier today I got an open pairing alert-
E3IRO 20 Feb 15

Go look at it and it say this-
IRO POSITION DUE TO IOE. CP/16
Trip is a 4 day ARN with an LCA

So.. the questions are-
What are they planning to do with the FO that is on the trip?
(He's still on it, and it's part of his original line award!)
Will they be bumping him off his trip, and if so, with or without pay?
Are they starting to build 2nd IRO position trips for IOE trips?

A few guys have brought up scenarios that the company may use to cover the need for IOE on augmented trips. We may be seeing one now~

Motch

PS> For the contract guru's..
Can they reassign the FO to another trip and still pay him the greater of the two trips? or can they put him on reserve for the length of the original trip?

As I stated in an earlier post- the win for the pilot group would be either being removed from the trip and being pay protected while being at home... or being reassigned (to the 2nd IRO slot) and getting double pay. Looks like this could be our first test~
oh... and the guy who got the pairing (from open time) did a swap, so now his original pairing is sitting in open time!
Interesting times we live in.