Originally Posted by Herkflyr

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.