Originally Posted by
4V14T0R
How would you handle someone who is getting displaced from DAL but has the seniority to hold HOU. There are no vacancies in HOU, but there are in BWI. This person would rather be based in HOU than BWI. Your suggestion is to have this person commute half way across the country to BWI vs HOU because you want to fight against the snowbirds. I don't think we restrict ourselves as a group. I think we need to add voluntary measures and attempt to further restrict the company. DRR going from 50% to 100% was a step in the right direction. TDY and other penalties to the company should be on the docket next cycle. Food for thought: If you're thinking about restricting the vacancy bid from monthly to some other frequency then we should think about allowing base trades.
You can bid anywhere your seniority can hold if displaced. So a DAL guy goes to HOU and a HOU guy goes to BNA and a BNA guy goes to MDW and MDW guy goes to BWI…or however it works out. That why we have 5% of the pilot group displaced now. 1 displacement can create 2-4 more.
I’m saying that if there are 0 vacancies into DAL but 3 DAL guys go to PHX for the winter…that 3 MCO guys can’t bid DAL and get in before your displaced HOU guy gets back. Any movement back into a base “should” be displaced pilots prior to non-displaced folks just wanting to move around…sort of like how a in base OT bid takes priority over an out of base bid.
I agree that in an ideal world, the company would have come to the union to negotiate solutions prior to doing the BS they did like TDY lines, base trades, etc. But the idiots at HDQ shoot first and ask ?’s later….
One more thing to fix in ‘28.