Originally Posted by
dera
That's not what the company decided to add. Everyone needs to be a captain for 12 months. Before there was an exception for displaced captains, that was a loophole, and they fixed it. Not necessarily a kosher way to do it, but goes with the spirit of the original flow agreement that's in the contract.
There are 2 (TWO!) FO's who are currently affected by this, and 2-3 more in the future. You really are taking this way out of proportion.
It wasn’t a loophole. It was something the company agreed to in a signed LOA. Now they arbitrarily changed it without negotiation with ALPA hence the grievance.
Really it won’t affect many at all except the few that took ‘sick leave’ for many years as an FO and are now ‘fit’ only 6-7 months prior to what they thought was their original flow.
Also it wasn’t always the case you needed to be a CA to flow. FO’s used to be able to flow.