Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
What are the rules on flush bids?
can they just open one displacement and tell everyone #1 down to put in a bid. Give a set number they want for each base seat and fleet and whoever is still standing when the music stops gets furloughed?
this would be more damaging to the pilot group but is it allowed?
Never heard of this. Its not in the contract, and this sounds like a great tool for the company, and not so much for the Union. I can’t imagine any union agreeing to a “flush bid” as you call it. The displacement timelines are there for a reason, to make it more expensive for the company to displace pilots out of their seats, and force them to retain people without downgrading them.
If the company wants to displace, they can just follow the contract. I can’t see how they are going to retrain 1/2 the airline though, because most of us would intentionally bid to a position that we would expect follow on displacements, etc and ride that wave for 6 months to a year with pay.