Originally Posted by
pilot141
Yeah but this one is more clear-cut than the ANC stuff.
New-hires are being trained and checked out in seats at this company, while guys hired before them wait for training dates.
A guy who is right now in the 757 right seat, with a training date for the right seat of the 767 of Jan 2017 sees a new hire trained into the right seat of the 767 check out in October of this year.
The company says "Sorry, no passover since all YOU have to go through is a differences course."
Horse-hockey, I say. A new-hire is in a seat that a senior guy bid - the senior guy should get paid for it.
But the company position now is is FU - grieve it.
Expect this nonsense to increase as we get more fleet familiarity. Everything will become a "differences course" and no one will ever trigger passover.
Thanks to all who have provided info. Pilot141 sums it up perfectly. I count 46 new hires on the MEM 767 training letter so far for next year. In my opinion, it doesn't matter what training course someone is going through...the company needs 46 MEM 767 FOs that it is choosing to fill with new hires. Although they are going through a different course, that does delay my training because the company could have turned those initial training courses into at least the same number (and possibly more) differences courses.
Nobody is being fooled here. It is all about money. The company gets needed 767 FOs and only has to pay them first year pay while keeping more senior pilots on NB pay.
Several guys have indicated this is already be grieved so I don't know what else to do about it at this point.