Originally Posted by pinseeker

I'm not sure I agree with the statement that it gives the company more control. Control over what? They have always had control over staffing levels, that didn't change. What did change is that there used to be two types of bids, an excess bid and a vacancy bid. How do you think things would have been different under the old excess bid for those 75FO's? They weren't excessing out of that seat, only adding to it. So, those pilots wouldn't be able to bid to relieve excess until the 75FO seat was over capacity. That wouldn't preclude a junior pilot from a seat that was being excessed from being assigned to a 75CM seat while the 75FO who was senior couldn't bid. To add to that, in this realignment bid, the 75FO's were senior enough to hold that 75CM seat on the previous bid, otherwise they wouldn't have pilots junior to them being assigned to the 75CM seat. Bottom line, I'm not seeing the big give here. If after this bid they decided they weren't going to have another bid for 48 months, but I retire in 45 months and thought I would bid 77CM in 12 months hoping there would be a vacancy bid, should I be able to now bump a junior pilot out of the 77CM seat because I didn't bid when I had the chance?