Originally Posted by
FNGFO
I had heard that we have something like 100 commuters that travel from the Atlanta area to other bases. This might clean out FLL and MCO a bit. MIA as well if it’s not a co-domicile. ATL will probably be the junior FO base for a while. It might provide opportunities for reserve CA’s to hold lines elsewhere. Or in ATL if I’m wrong.
At least I’m hoping so for those of us staring the reduction bid in the face.
I hope so. But if ORD and DFW are say heavy by 100 pilots each, even IF pilots from FLL and MCO want ATL, and take the positions, that only means the displacements from ORD and DFW will backfill those in FLL and MCO, it’s not like pilots get to stay in DFW and ORD if there are takers in MCO and FLL.
The company knows how many positions they want for the new bases and that will have to be met with a reduction in base positions to get that number. And the fact we aren’t upgrading hardly any, it’s not like we can do what we did with MCO and grow it slow using new upgrades and new hires to fill it.