Originally Posted by
Cowbell
I usually don't chime in on these discussions, but didn't we have an 800 Captain bid not too long ago? If it had only been a 550 Captain bid would we have been as doom and gloom as we are now? It seems to me this excess bid is nothing more than management once again showing they can't forecast crew manning with any reliability. You'd think they would go with shorter more manageable bids, like every other airline.
As one of the guys who could possibly get bumped it's sort of frustrating that they do it this way. Because they do this so far out, I took my training while some senior to me chose to bypass training. Training was a ton of work that I put in. It'll be pretty frustrating if I get bumped so that someone else who doesn't want to be on the bottom can stay on a list where they refuse to go to training. I might be ok... I guess I'll find out next month for sure and if I'm forced out hopefully I can hang on by refusing training in the next seat.