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4V14T0R
Explain what you would do with the language to help the displaced people, because everything I've read so far would bite you. If you're a CA you can currently downgrade into your base of choice. If you want all displaced people ahead of anyone new for secondary vacancies you wouldn't be able to downgrade into your base of choice. You would be stuck as a displaced CA. We have got to stop eroding seniority. The only thing to do with the language, in my eyes, is make it more expensive for the company and maybe force them into a different staffing model. On the staffing model front, SWAPA has been talking about scope lately, and one of the things they brought up is how the legacys use block hours for their stafffing model for wide bodies. This is how it should be done. If it were done this way, DEN wouldn't have shrank a fraction of what it did.
TLDR version, stop going after your fellow pilots and go after the company for the language.
This has been beaten to death, but yeah, displaced pilots should absolutely get in prior to someone coming from another base. It’s domicile right of return, not domicile right of return if you happen to have a positive vacancy showing. Everybody is sick of hearing about it, but we wouldn’t be hearing about it still if the language had been fixed (other than Denver which is an outlier). The way they run it as basically two separate vacancies is baffling and makes no sense unless you consider that they didn’t have to reprogram the computer to do it this way.
I have no skin in the displacement game as I am a commuter who has the seniority horsepower to hold pretty much anywhere I want, but the way we are bumping people out of a base and then allowing someone senior to them back into that same base even though they hold “domicile right of return” makes no sense. I would be perfectly fine if I bid into Denver and saw that someone junior to me with DRR got the vacancy and not me.
And yeah, the other language needs fixed too. TAD lines, all hotels paid, whatever it takes to make it hurt enough that the company never does Denver again.