Originally Posted by
Valar Morghulis
Since when do award bids bump bottom pilots off equipment around here? So senior FO's may upgrade and junior Capts will stay junior longer and other pilots will be awarded the vacated spots. Agree it will shift bidding demographics to a degree.
Think about where all the 747 F/O's are going to displace to.
If this thing goes through, instead of them displacing to say, senior 777 F/O or senior A330 F/O, they will probably say, "Well, that whole LCA trip drop thing was great while it lasted, but it sucks so bad now, I'm going to displace into the 767ER Captain seat.".
Presto, the junior 767 Captains are displaced to the 737, and those junior Captains displace to the 88, and those junior Captains have a party because they HATE flying the MD88!
You guys are playing checkers, Richard is playing chess. You all need to look about 2-3 years (at least!) down the road to see the same thing Richard is seeing and setting the table for today.