Originally Posted by Adlerdriver

I think your personal experience is not the norm. You must have just had some bad luck flying with guys coming off extended sick, vacation or some other absence. If they're flying the line regularly, the only way a Captain would be hurting on landings is if they chose to be. I seriously doubt that's a systemic problem. Maybe a few outlier's personal agenda, but probably not something most MD-11 FOs are dealing with on a regular basis. Not letting the FO have any of the landings is usually a symptom of something else, but you already assured us that's not the case.

I did a document search of the new contract using RFO. Other than finding out the word "peRFOrm" appears over 150 times, I could not find anything that indicates a change allowing Captains to "bid RFO trips". Do you have a contract reference for that?