Originally Posted by
rightseat
The vacancy with the base reductions.at DEN & ATL that was posted today is going to really complicate the decisions for a lot of us. Without the additional openings in MDW and HOU that were referenced, there are going to be a bunch of unnecessary displacements, with folks getting bounced for a month or they may get to their preference next month. This will be particularly true for the Denver folks.
Also, as of 2:00 today, the vacancy projection has not been published.
i am not normally one to complain and I know there are a thousands of balls in the air in Dallas today. However, this has been coming for months with plenty of time to prepare. It just seems to be kind of a sloppy job by one of the departments that normally is relatively well managed.
The lack of vacancies in Houston was concerning, but I think those will appear in the next vacancy to add pilots for HOU redeye flying. This whole thing is poorly managed. There are going to be a lot of pilots (including probably me) who are going to be spat out the bottom in a secondary or tertiary displacement.