Originally Posted by
Desdi
Hence an LOA, an LOA modifies the CBA and the language you cite. If the alternative of anyone in that predicament would be a furlough otherwise would they really be feeling slighted?! Notice the attention dedicated to displacements on the MEC Chair’s video, also realize if they were planning on keeping all the pilots on the list there would really be no need for a large displacement now would there?
Well, imagine a scenario where the 190 was retired over the next year. That would be 900 displacements (minus the bid outs to vacancies created by new positions). 60 airplanes gone with 25 deliveries between last Jan and end of 2021...that’s about 35 planes worth of pilots we don’t need (which is 550ish assuming each plane flew the same block hours as previous staffing required).
It makes no sense to carry a bunch of extra people in a dying fleet...especially if a bunch of $200+/hr 190 CAs would be displaced to 320 FO making less hourly (assuming the next bid is 220/320 FO heavy).
It makes a lot more sense to use the overstaffed time period (the whole next year) to transition everyone over to the 320/220. Artificially keeping a bunch of people on the 190 for a short time to lower pay rates, then creating a massive training need after demand comes back to the fleets that are actually sticking around, doesn’t make much sense to me.