you are correct. the last thing the company wants to do is displace pilots, not because they cant afford it, but because they hate giving pilots money they don't have to.

straight from our contract...


A Pilot dispalced from his domicile will receive 45 days continuous per diem from the effective date of the displacement or his first report for duty, if the date of his first report for duty falls after the effective date of displacement.

The company will provide payment to a pilot displace from his domicile, prior to the effective date of the displacement or prior to his reporting to the displaced location, which ever is earlier, in a net amount after payroll taxes equal to 45 times the current room rate, including applicable sales taxes, charged to the company by the hotel primarily utilezed for crew lodging in the domicile to which the pilot is displaced. If the company primarily utilizes uses more than one such hotel, then the amount shall be the average between the rates at each such hotel. The displaced pilot is under no obligation to use this amount for payment of overnight lodging in his domicile.

sorry if there are some typos, i had to type it all out because the contract is in pdf photo copy format. any way, you can see it would get really expensive for the company to displace pilots to lax. by my math they would have to cut you a check for about 4 grand, then another 1500 for the perdiem. plus regular pay. i think this would be the last option for this company.