Originally Posted by
OpenClimb
Is this a rhetorical question? As in: you know the answer, but you don’t like it?
If a person gets bumped from a domicile, he can use his seniority to bid to another domicile that his seniority can hold. A vacancy in the domicile is not required. If it so happens that the Company is not simultaneously expanding the domicile, somebody’s going to be displaced from domicile #2.
Taking it to the next level, if the folks displaced from LAS are senior enough to bump the junior guy out of PHL and the Company isn’t expanding PHL, a couple of PHL pilots could be displaced to MIA (or whatever their seniority can hold).
I believe ALPA refers to this system (honoring seniority) as a “bump and flush” system of displacements.
Surely you don’t think a 13 year guy from Denver should *have* to go to MIA when people almost a decade junior to him are holding LAS.
Definitely not a rhetorical question, but an honest. I didn’t think you could get bid out of your base, unless the base shrunk. I thought if involuntary displaced it would find you a home in order of your bid, but where an opening was available not force people out of their base. Now I know it works this way.