Originally Posted by
UnusualAttitude
Question via dart:
In system bid 23-01 I will be bidding FROM a WB CA position. If I am subject to ASSIGNMENT and am assigned a WB CA position will I be subject to a bid award restriction in a subsequent bid? In other words, if I was assigned to MEM XXX CA position and another bid came out after I activated would I be subject to the standard lateral/down bid restrictions.
Answer via dart:
If you are assigned TO a WB captain position from a WB CA position: Once there, and if activated, then a future System Bid occurs, you will need to be activated in the WB captain seat for 24 months in order to receive a lateral WB Captain crew position. The 24.F.1 restrictions don’t “look back” on how you got there, it just looks “forward.”
Right but in your post below you stated a specific seat not "WB CA to WB CA" like you did in your DART. Words matter.
Originally Posted by
UnusualAttitude
More garbage in Section 24, the gift that keeps on giving. If a pilot is displaced (assigned) it is still considered a lateral move for the sake of a subsequent system bid. So even if you are put into a position via assignment you cannot bid back out of it via award (to a lateral position) until you have been activated for the adequate amount of time. The fact that ALPA ever agreed to this language is puzzling. The fact that we didn't even bother attempting to improve it during this negotiation is infuriating. Example: Pilot is excessed out of their 777CA seat and into the 767CA seat. There is another bid in 18 months, that pilot who was previously a 777CA and excessed cannot bid back to the 777CA seat but a pilot JR to him not subject to a bid award restriction can go right ahead. Seniority abrogation at it's finest.
Read 24.C.2.e if you are still confused.