Listen, I get it and agree with you on the logic behind what you are saying; however, there is a distinction between doing what you "can" do and what you "should" do. It's a bad look to bid into domiciles with displaced pilots simply for one month of vacation bidding strength, only to bid back out and then "sell" those prime vacation weeks. We all know it's happening, and in regular times, I am all for it; seniority matters, but this has a slight stink to it with people doing transcons for two years. Families are being separated, divorces are happening, we are losing good pilots to other airlines, etc.

I understand this is 100% company-caused, but as a pilot group, we could look out for our fellow pilots and do the right thing now, while making it too costly to do so in the future under a new contract. Hell, we organized a national ATC pizza-buying program on WhatsApp for what I would argue is a far less QoL issue than what some of our junior FOs have been dealing with for months to years. I would bet my retirement that they would gladly give up paychecks for 40 days (obviously with backpay like the ATC folks are getting) to have this issue resolved or minimized.