Originally Posted by
UnusualAttitude
3. Seat locks, we don’t have seat locks. We have bid award restrictions. They are the most punitive in the industry and it’s currently costing pilots who got caught up in it lots of money. I don’t want to air a figure but PM me and I’ll be glad to tell you what it is costing me. There is a QOL issue which you seem to have no interest in discussing also. I find it disconcerting to stare down the barrel of 3 commutes next month to do AM hub turns while pilots hired years after me are doing single departure lines on the airplane I was never given a chance to bid. More of that coming. Unfortunately, you and many others haven't taken the time to see how that section of the contract actually works. Also, please reference another carrier with a 60 month bid restriction in their contract.
-UA
When we went to the new system. All downward\lateral bid award restrictions were set at 0 (24.F.1 Note)
I could certainly be mistaken, but I think every airplane was eligible for bidding in 18-01 as well as 19-01.
FDA bids to\from aren't considered downward lateral\bids.
To get to 60 months needs to get to 4th downward\lateral bid. So, 76 FO to Airbus FO to MD 11 FO to 777 FO only gets you 3. And one would imagine, next bid would be to the Captain seat. And, not usually a lot of lateral bids there.
Previous Contract was a simpler 24 months post activation. And I highly doubt this was a CBA provision that we were seeking, but as is the case with many things a result of something the company desired to minimize people chasing type ratings.
And the bid award restrictions are waiveable to 0. One of the things FedEx Mgt is good at is actually waiving things people have good reasons for. Such as a life change that makes the current seat assignment difficult, but a downward\lateral bid would result in better QOL for an individual pilot.