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If you think Sutcliffe makes that decision, I got some swamp land to sell you. SWA has been using that formula before that guy was even born. He is the analytics department. Decisions are not solely based on the one dude. It’s a money decision. Pure and simple. Unfortunately it’s at your expense and the people that live in DEN. When the time comes to do SEP process for scheduling, make sure your voice is heard. The problem is the majority of the eleven thousand plus will also have to make displacements high on the “must list.” Big loop hole for sure. Hopefully it gets addressed one way or the other.
Displacements affect everyone not in the top 30%. If you’re 60% pre-displacement you can typically hold half the weekends off and are a hard line holder. After displacement you’re now 80% and forced into blanks with weekend flying. Or you went from blanks to weekend reserve. More cushion behind you helps your relative seniority…seniority drop = QOL drop. It doesn’t simply just affect those forcibly removed.