Originally Posted by
Piloto Noche
I always wondered why the over-60 guys could waltz right into an S/O position without a vacancy bid. I was on the panel of the 727 for two years waiting for a vacancy bid to go to the back of the 10 as the NDs piled right in on their 60th birthday.
The contract says they will be allowed to go if there is a position open that their seniority can hold. If there was a position open for them, then why was there not a vacancy bid for it in the first place. ???
There wasn't a position for them. The contract says that there doesn't need to be a vacancy for them, that they just had to be senior to at least one person in that seat. Similarly, this is why the company put all of those excesses of 1 on all of the other seats, so they could reduce the potential overmanning on those seats as folks bid them, in essence, allowing them to push guys out the bottom. Rinse and repeat for each seat.