Originally Posted by
Packrat
Percentage is B.S. You gained 7 years seniority on the guy who is now stuck behind you for the rest of his career. That's a windfall by definition.
By your reasoning the #1 VX Capt. should be listed next to the #1 AS Capt. who has 25 years seniority over him. He should be bidding over at least 200 AS pilots with 20 or more years of seniority? Sorry, I call B.S. on that.
After our SLI the 1st vacancy bid was for about 80 737 Captains, and virtually every one of them was a legacy United FO who wasn't able to hold Captain previously. Those were previously CAL pilot jobs that they just walked in and took. I think a VX pilot who's on the verge of being a Captain, and then gets 200-300 AS FO's placed ahead of him and bid Airbus Captain is going to be pretty upset someone else took his job. Handing a bunch of Airbus Captain seats to AS FOs would be a windfall using DOH or anything close to it.