Originally Posted by
Sluggo_63
The structure is different, but the results are the same. If they put a -25 in the 77C seat (old contract), and you were a 77F and wanted to be a Captain, you wouldn't be able to move because the seat was in excess, unless you were bumped out, or bid to relieve the excess. Same thing here. People are seeing junior people gets seats they bid, but those junior people are coming from a closing base or being bumped out of their seat. The same thing would have happened with the last contract. You can't go to a seat that's in excess (old verbiage) just because you wanted to.
Lets not talk past or around each other.
Are any of the following seats in excess (old verbiage): 30FM, 67FM, 67FI, 57CM, 77CA, 77FA, and 67FO? Answer: No. The company is clearly advertising vacancies in those seats during this displacement bid.
Given the long history of unionized airline pilots, how should those vacancies be filled ?
In the previous "Minus 1, Bump and Flush" the junior excessed toothpaste would have been pushed further back. (....but that would require more training cycles, and thus more $$$)
In Unity (for everyone),
DLax