Originally Posted by Hillbilly

That's a little different. Mandatory Displacements do not incur a category freeze that begins on the date of the award like an AE or new hire pilot assignment. MDs never prevent a pilot from being awarded something on a subsequent bid.

The pilots I am aware of that have gotten out of AE awards and the associated category freeze in the past all had some personal family issue/crisis that they presented to the company requesting the release from the award as a one off. Even then, they were only granted if the company could make the staffing work. These days, I'm not confident they have much staffing flexibility to work with in that regard.