I believe everyone being excessed, senior to the junior pilot awarded HKG Captain, should be bidding HKG Captain as their first choice. All current (07-03 and 08-01) HKG Captain awardees will have a two year seat lock once activated. On bid 08-02, all excesses who bid HKG Captain, senior to the junior HKG Captain, will receive passover pay, once the junior HKG Captain activates. All of the HKG Captains seats are full, therefore, the excess pilots that bid HKG likely will not be awarded HKG, but the fact they are senior to the junior HKG Captain will trigger so much widebody passover pay that the company would be foolish not to revisit the LOA and possibly cancel and rebid HKG as well. This all works because the company cannot award a bid that would create an FDA excess.

I am one of those junior captain awardees, but we need to get this FDA LOA fixed, even if it means I lose my 10 year early widebody Captain seat award.

There is an out if you are awarded HKG Captain and you don't want it; don't sign the letter!

This is just my understanding of the contract. Please correct me if I am wrong. I want to mislead no one.