Originally Posted by
CousinEddie
Little confused here Scott. I flew a Europe trip about 4 months ago with a L-UAL guy that shortly thereafter took a Captain bid. He lives in DEN and is a former PI if I recall. I looked him up and see he is now a 737 Capt in DEN (just finished traning), seniority just shy of 7000 with bid 16-03V. I'm ignorant to the dynamics of DEN, so how did that happen? What kept you from that bid?
There have been two? cap bids in Denver since the sli (circa fall 2012). I was eligible for only those.
They both went very senior (Sub 2500?) Since then, there have been zero cap bids. You are probably talking about Jerry Coleman? He took a junior lax cap bid. Great guy. He didn't get trained in time thus the bump. Thus the cap bid in den.
As a result of the cal cap grab which went very junior, the entire den 757 base had bumping seniority to hold 737 cap in den. I have had a den cap bid in since 2009. Not once has a bid that I was eligible for gone junior to me since late 2009.
Scott