Originally Posted by
pinseeker
There is nothing in this bid that prevents anyone who isn't under a seat lock to bid for those vacancies. If you want to be a 75 captain, and are senior enough to hold one of those vacancies, you will get it unless you have been in a WB captain seat for less than 24 months. How is that different than any other vacancy bid?
I don't believe this is true. MEM 757 FOs who bid MEM 757 Capt were not awarded that seat on this practice bid, when more junior pilots from displaced seats were given that award.
Once again, I'm not saying the practice bid is wrong, or some how not in compliance with the 2015 contract - which we passed. I'm saying it's different than the old "Minus 1 Bump & Flush" system we had prior. Did we, or at least our 2015 Negotiating Committee, fully understand the affects of the changes we agreed to?
A 2023 TA is looming on the horizon. Read it ALL. Understand it ALL. Ask questions on why something has changed - especially if it's something new the company has proposed. Who benefits from the change? Who loses? Their proposals are rarely innocuous.
In Unity (for everyone),
DLax