Originally Posted by
kronan
Need to check the legacy FOM JS priority matrix.
"Business" travel has always had a higher priority than "Staging"
You may have a point, but Booking Priority and bumping are not synonymous. While "Employees traveling on company business" is listed higher (#17) than "Employees traveling on Staging status" (#20), I have never heard of Business bumping Staging. Also, while offline crew members ("Other crew members employed by another U.S. Part 119 certificate holder for which FedEx Express has an approved security/verification process in place") is the last in that same list, we know those folks have enjoyed "protected" seats up until this new change. They could be bumped by Operational Emergency or FAA inspectors, but they could not be bumped by Staging, Business, or even Personal, even though those are all higher priorities on the same list.
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