Originally Posted by
Delco92
...Her "seniority" during 200703 would of allowed her to hold 43 of 46 30CH. Posting 200801 is not an option, too senior for her to hold. Posting 200802 has her holding 57 of 62 30HC with no 30HC vacancies listed in this posting. Therefore, I do not see how her seniority allows her to be awarded this position with out the "excess" of 13 pilots from Hong Kong to keep the total number at of 30HC seats at 49. Since she is 57 of 62 she would not be eligible to be awarded this seat....
You are assuming that an "excess" is determined by the total openings on a previous posting. I contend, the company determines that somewhat arbitrary figure.
There were very junior folks awarded captain slots on the original HKG posting(perhaps because of the wonderful LOA... sorry, I couldn't resist). Understanding our CBA as it pertains to the various postings, excesses, base closures, "partial cancellations," age 60 change, etc., is a mess, to say the least.
Now the company faces a bit of a dilemma. If, in fact, the current situation allows numerous pilots to hold captain in HKG, due to their seniority to the current junior captain, and if the company determines 49 is the magical "excess" number, then quite a few pilots will be receiving passover pay. This passover will continue, in all likelihood, for quite some time[read 2 years ++(for you subic folks)], since most affected are much too junior for widebody captain domestically. Obviously the company doesn't want to pay that. Instead, they send many of these individuals notification not to keep HKG as their bid, if passover pay is their incentive, because they
will go.
Will they send all 62 captains to HKG? What if more pilots put HKG captain as their choice(if, like myself they are elgible)? Could we end up with 75 captains? Does the pilot dare call their bluff? If so, be prepared for the consequences. Then again, there's still that contract/agreement that needs to be signed...hmmm
