Originally Posted by
Hedley
That’s exactly what they’re doing. In the crew resource update they say that just like the previous vacancy, the primary purpose is to allow those who have become eligible or have decided to upgrade to put in a bid. They have no expectations of filling the bid, but they’ll keep running vacancies and chip away at the stone. We’re hiring a massive number of people each month and as they come off of probation, some will take the upgrade. Rather than encourage pilots to bid where the flying is, they’ll take captains where ever they can get them and then just push the flying through those bases.
Even if it’s 150 pilots coming off probation and only 50 take the quick upgrade-
I don’t EVER want to hear any of them *****ing about the reserve rules and the flying they are getting.
We are fighting to get a New, Super Updated UPA- one that is still a holdover from C12, which had its foundation from both Legacy Carriers Bankruptcy Contracts!
If someone who didn’t even have a single stripe back on 9/11 thinks this is great, that they can upgrade in a year.., yet expect everyone else to do the hard work?!
Um, don’t expect many of us to bend over and help them.
(and yes, it sounds harsh. But it’s also reality. The reality that they just can’t fill the Left seat of our narrow bodies so they have resorted to monthly bids in the hopes that the junior, newbies will take the upgrade that others won’t)
Once off Probation.. really learn your aircraft. Learn the way the system works. Enjoy some seniority. AND Volunteer to help in a committee within our Union.
Motch