Originally Posted by
Pedro4President
My take on the company not displacing the FOs is that they can’t flow unless they upgrade to CA and by simply waiting it out they can force the guys to upgrade without displacements. Also, this bid is pretty heavy on Miami 145 and 175 upgrades. DFW 175 will get bid up as well as MIA.
It all depends on how people bid. If a majority of the bids aren’t preferences then I could be wrong but we are pilots and it’s usually a me first attitude especially in position bidding. No one will or should fault a pilot for his preference bids.
For those that are senior, proffer to displace is the way to go now. Still not preference bidding. But they need to know how to do it AND what the rules are. For whatever reason, people are missing the details on this.
But I agree on not faulting anyone on how they bid. It s just too hard to predict at the moment. I feel for anyone that wanted to upgrade and tried the displacement route and swung and missed. That would suck. I think they ll still be able to do it via proffer to displace this time if they take an initial bid to a less preferable base. That's the route I would take.