Originally Posted by
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Not sure how that's going to be possible, since a new hire can hold anything except a 767-400, 777, and, curiously, 73N in certain bases. With the 777 growth, there are going to be vacancies in 767 and 7ER in most if not all domiciles, and many are going to be filled by new hires from NYC7ER and NYCM88, as the senior guys will be moving up to 765 and 777, as well as M88A. Sorry, but there's no provision for an "AE for everyone but the new hires."
The only thing that's going to stop new hires from going NYC7ER (and thus bidding off it right away) is to pay what the flying should be worth (relative to domestic) so that senior guys will bid there by choice, or to stop having AE's altogether.
No need to apologize, especially since I didn't say anything about an AE for everyone but new hires. I said one with vacancies that most of them can't hold. i.e. captain positions (which none can hold) and some minor adjusting of fo's, but no major F/O vacancies except for NYC. That's just my opinion, I could be way off, but it's what I would do if I were them to keep a repeat of last summer from happening. I mean look at the conversion window, it ends in September. Thus, I think this bid was mainly to position bodies for the summer and you're not going to see much shifting until after that. I think that the couple of 777's coming on line now have already benn accounted for in previous bids. To be honest, my money would be on no AE at all for 5 or 6 months.
As far as shifting pay for one category or base or type of flying, ain't gonna happen. The company already approached the union about upping the pay for FO's on the ER in NYC, (maybe 88 as well don't know about that) and the union said no way. If we're going to talk about pay increases, it will be for everybody.