Originally Posted by
Sputnik
I've heard the same. Including from an LCA who said he heard it from RA himself. My impression they weren't looking to put it under the old system where you basically went to reserve (recovery?). Instead I think they were looking at forecasting, basically figuring how much training in a month. Once they figured a given LCA would have 3 of 4 trips be IOE, they'd pull those trips. As in, once A sched complete, those trips wouldn't even be available to be assigned to Bs.
So only senior pilots will want to be LCA, it will sick to be a lca and want to improve your schedule after you get your line and be told nope. Our maybe yes, you can change. So that screws over the FO that wanted the trip but was blocked.