Originally Posted by
MoonShot
I don't know how any FO could vote "Yes" considering the OE language.
If you have, or ever plan to have, an ounce of FO seniority - this will bite you month after month and there will be no recourse. Don't forget, we haven't even started to hit the retirement wave. LCAs are gonna be busy for decades!
That great trip to Europe you could have held - gone. Even a bad trip that would have completed your schedule without going to shuffle mode or denial -gone. Sorry, a LCA took them.
Withholding trips from FOs cannot be allowed!!!
I agree. That is complete BS. I will be perfectly honest. I am not exactly losing sleep at the prospect of
some change to super-senior FOs getting paid to stay home for a month as if there is a constitutional amendment granting them that.
I get the company's point, especially in some super-short categories like NYC 73NB (which is the company's fault, by the way) where you see an F/O getting GS#7 after all his trips are bought due to LCA bidding.
However I was anticipating some sort of recovery obligation with iron-clad protections (only prior to GS, not WS or reserves, only within the original footprint, if the original had no redeyes, then the replacement could not either, etc).
But to just withhold trips from bidding to begin with? BS. I flew the 767 for 13+years and never once selected the "bid with LCA" option. I did, however frequently end up flying with LCAs on very nice trips. Would that option be taken away entirely?
Still need to get some perspective on a lots of details.