Originally Posted by
mketch11
So long as there are displacements of all eligible FOs, it does not increase your odds. Read the contract section about simultaneous vacancy and displacement. When it tells you to reference the section on displacements, and you actually go back and read, you will understand that a displaced pilot will be able to displace to what he can hold regardless of preference bids below him/her.
I can tell you first hand that the union has confirmed the bid was run correctly and there were those with displacements and proffers for displacement that did not get what their seniority would hold because all open vacancies were preferenced for.