Originally Posted by
flyguy81
Junior in base, senior relative to everyone else displaced (except ATL guys). Most Jr CA in DEN is a Oct '15 hire, making DEN the 2nd most Sr base behind ATL (most Jr CA in the company was awarded upgrade on this bid - Jan '18 hire - 1511 pilots Jr to the DEN CA plug). Most Jr. DEN FO is now an April '23 hire making DEN the most Sr FO base in the company (there's 1730 FO's junior to the plug).
Takes 48% system seniority just to hold DEN as CA or 85% as a FO. With SWAPA's email today saying it could take years to get back to DEN, the only real way back into a base out west as a FO are people willing to commute to upgrade (how many are really going to sign up to do a transcon commute to sit rsv?) or growth (which is only happening in AUS). As a CA - it's retirements, which are negligible when spread throughout 13 bases.
Company is telling new hires and interviewees they can hold DEN and bases out west shortly out of training. It could take years....especially since DRR doesn't apply to secondary vacancies (union needs to fix this....like yesterday). New hires went to BWI and MCO....likely to continue as people hired the last 2 years work their way back west.
They could unf*%& this pretty easily if they wanted to....
The company may want this on their own if they find they lose too many people because of our staffing situation. I'm still convinced this will work itself out through hiring/upgrades (minus DEN). They may decide they're all ok with that, who knows.
They very much need to look into updating their staffing model to a block hour per domicile and not RON model. I'd be curious to know how much that effects our productivity.