Originally Posted by
CA1900
Clearly my meaning wasn't clear here. This wasn't the pilots' doing. Irritated as I am with my involuntary commute, I don't at all fault the guys who are bidding into my home airport while I'm displaced. I blame the contract language that allows it, and we need to fix it next cycle. That's all.
Much like reroutes are greatly curtailed when they became too expensive in this new CBA, displacements need to be the same. It shouldn't be a cheap option at all for the company.
I know being displaced sucks….. but your fellow pilots nor the new contract created this pain.
The company did.
You are feeling the pain because the company stopped hiring, shuffled people all over like deck chairs on the titanic, AND THEN set the vacancies to zero.
If the vacancy had a positive number, your DRR would win over other pilots trying to bid into your home domicile no matter how senior they are.
You actually would get 100% of those positive numbers thanks to the improvements in this contract, the old one was only 50%.
Your fellow pilots had ZERO to do with causing this pain and seeking to restrict them is an error.
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