Originally Posted by
UnusualAttitude
As you were waiting for 8 years were there hundreds of pilots junior to you being put into a position you wanted to bid?
-UA
Actually, during age 65, 30 people junior to me were excessed into the seat I wanted to bid, so, yes. I went to Alpa for relief, and they said, "too bad, you should have bid it when you had the chance". That chance was the bid just prior to the age change, and I thought, "I'll wait one more bid", then age 65 hit. Had I known, I would have bid it.
The people in charge did not care about the abrogation of my seniority, they only cared about getting their over 60 buddies back in the left seat. The company and the union manipulated the bids to do just that. If we had not had agency shop, 50% of the FO's would have quit in protest.
The manipulation and the 30 people junior to me in my Captain's seat cost me easily $500,000 over 5 years.
This is when I really understood that Alpa is run by the people in power and their friends, and they all operate on the "I've got mine" principle.