Originally Posted by
AxlF16
I didn't do a good job articulating my question...and this attempt won't be any better lol.
I'm not talking about closing categories, I'm talking about displacing all at once. Here's an example:
EWR 777 FO displaced - Seniority 10000 (current jr man ~12600). Bump game would take him on a typical path of 320/737 Captain, 787 FO, eventually 320/737 FO. Maybe jumping bases, but EWR is a pretty jr base in all categories.
EWR 320 Captain jr man is ~10600
EWR 737 Captain jr man is ~10700
EWR 787 FO jr man is ~ 10900
If the end game is that this pilot ends up as a NB FO, can the company displace from all of those categories on the same bulletin thereby resetting the new jr man levels and preventing the EWR777 FO from displacing into any category other than the NB FO? How far can they go with this, and what are the guardrails?
Sure, they could do this--as long as they were displacing from all those categories. In fact in a situation like this, they would want to do this to the maximum extent possible for the very reasons you mention.
I can't think of an obvious guardrail, other than they have the vested financial incentive to only displace as many as can be trained as well as ensuring that pilots are ending up where they really want them.
It's a chess game for manpower planning, and they need to consider their next six moves while making the first one. Their goal is to reach the desired end state as efficiently as possible so they will use every tool available within the UPA to do that.