Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
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.
let's remember the guy who wrote the language is a fulll time trip pull union member who takes time off from the union during the summer during his vacation and moves bases to credit 300+ tfp then bid back and goes on full time pull.