Originally Posted by
griff312
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I do know that displacements go from bottom up. So if the company ran all of the preference bids, and had vacancies left over to fill; they would start displacing eligible FO's from the bottom of the seniority list up. Those eligible FO's that didn't get displaced to CA likely didn't have anything in thier 3P & 3D, and were senior enough to dodge the displacement.
You were correct until the end there. IF someone lucked out, it wasn't because they had a blank 3D. It'd be because the company had more upgrade-able FOs than they did open CA vacancies. They filled all the vacancies so there was no need to keep displacing.