I am guessing we may technically be in "reduction mode" based on some of the minimums in the recent bulletins. When you put the minimums as low as they did on the recent 777 CA vacancy (every 756 CA position at 20 below current staffing) you end up having a consequence of being in reduction mode?


8-E-5 The Company shall calculate the system-wide total Captain positions that are published
as the minimum number of Captain positions in each vacancy or displacement bulletin. If the
number of published minimum Captain positions has declined at any point in the six (6) month
period prior to and including the publication date of a displacement bulletin, the Company
shall be deemed to be in “reduction mode” when administering that displacement bulletin. If
there have been no other vacancy or displacement bulletins in the previous six (6) months,
the comparison shall be made between the published displacement bulletin and the most
recently published vacancy or displacement bulletin.

8-E-6-a Displacement bids shall be open for at least twenty (20) days after the publication
date of a displacement bulletin. If the Company is not in “reduction mode,” it may decrease
this twenty (20) day period to fourteen (14) days.