Originally Posted by
IPAMD11FO
It's actually worse than it looks. 20 Capt 74Y vacancies and 45 Capt displacements on the other fleets = net loss of 25 Capt positions system wide.
Then factor in the 17 747 FE's who definitely will get another shot up front, not to mention the DC-8 FE's who can hold 74Y Capt.
Bottom line - you can figure a minimum of 45 current Capts losing their seat, potentially more. The ripple effect is going to be enormous.
If you're junior, I hope you have a very understanding spouse. Gonna be ugly around here for a very long time!
I think you a partially right. However, it looks like a loss of 20 current captains and a gain of 20 74y captains. So that part is a wash, but you a correct as to the 17 engineers or DC8 engineers that will bid the vacancies. The other uh oh, is if all the 747 FEs wait to get displaced, and let the realignment close and the displacement open. So then they could displace to wherever their seniority could hold. So ultimately you could see some initial captain upgrades just to be yanked.