And have someone lose their vacation one year when they upgrade?!? Are you crazy?!?

I don’t remember the whole story, but we used to have quarterly bids. We gave that up in the CBA for some reason to protect vacations when changing seats, etc. Seems like a terrible trade off, but that’s just me. I’m sure someone can provide more details on the how and why. Annual bids allow the company to play with the numbers more too because they can always do a supplemental bid whenever they want. I think the change to the system bid frequency and the reserve grids were two of the biggest gives in our first CBA. Hopefully we can claw that stuff back in the JCBA.