Originally Posted by MasterOfPuppets

The Company will need to replace every single CA that downgrades to FO. Once this IAH bump is finalized there will be a large CA bid to replace them. The new CAs will more than likely come out of the senior wide body FO ranks on the west coast. They are displacing the IAH pilots to better staff the SFO/LAX bases, so that is where the new upgrades are going to go. If I were running the show I'd run the wide body seats fat, one large upgrade to the west coast will take care of the overstaffing problem.

Also we have not seen a wide body retirement bid yet. That usually happens in the fall. I haven't seen a 777 CA bid in a long time.

The only seats I can see secondary's off of is IAH 320 if every pilot elects that mission, and the 756/76t if more than 50ish take that mission. All other bases will most likely be safe.