Originally Posted by
MD-11Loader
Why? If you can’t hold the base then you can’t hold the base. If they are displacing first officers to captain, then they are entitled to hold whatever base they can and too bad for those below them. Why should someone senior be inconvenienced more because a hired gun DEC is taking a slot in a base that they want? The answer is that they shouldn’t and that the DEC received $45,000 in bonus money to accept his/her fate as the plug.
If you read my post, you'll see that I was replying to this quote.
Originally Posted by
highfarfast 
I don't keep track of the bid results/flow plan to see who all it's happening to and when but I've talked to and flown with several captains who have been displaced from base/equipment. One, about a year ago, wasn't even a DEC.
I wasn't talking about DEC's.