Originally Posted by
MikeF16
It's a good question and no offense taken.
Commuters lose no seniority in commuting. They have made a voluntary choice to use their seniority to enable their commuting lifestyle. VB will remove trips from the bid package which somebody who hasn't bid a VB (both commuters and those who live in domicile) would have had access to.
Example: Senior commuter lives in Dallas and uses their seniority to bid double commutable NYC trips. VB established in Tampa. All those late sign-in early sign-out trips that used to do NYC-TPA are now gone to a new hire who just happens to live in Florida and bid the TPA VB. How is that fair? That has most definitely abrogated the seniority system.
Bid what you want, and want what you bid. I heard this same kind of bullsh!t when we had Express. Every. single. pilot. senior to me had the opportunity to bid the category. They didn't. I did.
Your argument is hollow and ridiculous.