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It is not going to prevent the carnage seen in LGB.

They are running the system bid with the displacement, therefore according to the contract, the vacancy is run first. So starting at the most senior person bidding for a vacancy, system wide, they will get what they want and can hold, including those open MCO spots if that’s what they bid. In theory, those MCO openings could hypothetically be gone by the time the bid reaches a displaced MCO 190 pilot if they are bid by senior pilots. That will not happen, however, even if it was straight 65 CA and 65 FO openings on the 320 in MCO and there are 65 CA and 65 FOs displaced off the 190 MCO, all of those 190 pilots will not get those spots, I guarantee there will be senior pilots denying them for those openings. Once the vacancy is finished, then, the displacement will be run.

Any MCO 190 pilot that did not get what they want in the system bid that is, run first, will be displaced to their award on their involuntary displacement preference. Being that this is run as a displacement, they will be awarded whatever they can hold, regardless if there’s a vacancy for it. They will therefore displace someone, that person will then displace someone, and so on till the most junior person is displaced then it starts over again with the next senior displaced 190 pilot who starts another domino effect.

This whole scenario is exactly what happened in LA because there was a displacement of LGB pilots, and at the same time, the same number of LA vacancies. So many of those displaced LGB pilots were not able to hold LA due to senior pilots elsewhere in the system wanting LA and being awarded it as the vacancy happens first. The 190 MCO pilots are not just going to slide over just like the LGB pilots didn’t and it caused a training domino effect system wide.

Expect a similar scenario this time around.