That is truly a great provision. It really isn’t taking away revenue from the company “at the time of booking”. Most passengers now pay up for those seats. That’s the big difference from years past.

If the company decides to stone wall this, they will pay come summer time. This goes beyond flight ops. Commercial side of the house is probably the ones making noise about this. Their is nothing SWAPA can do about it contractually but their are other provisions to make sure your fit to fly.

I’ll be honest, last bargaining cycle, when SEP came out, my top 5/6 were scope, retirement, disability, training Scheduling, commutability on some 4 days and cashing out all of sick or a portion of it. Never thought displacements, DH’s, APL, density of trips and trip construction(1/3, 2/2, etc)would be an issue. As the company changes the network with more connections and creating more banks, day of the week flying, it creates problems. This current CBA was not designed to tackle all these changes. CBA is over 350 pages. Guess we’ll need to add more.