Originally Posted by
doug_or
There are two issues here, and I suggest you review your policy manual.
MKE DO NOT have priority over other domiciles getting into LAX. It is a new base and its opening, for the purposes of this discussion, is completely unrelated to the reductions in MKE. LAX will be staffed by the most senior people in each seat who want to bid for it. MKE pilots WILL have the ability to bump pilots who are in the same seat and junior to them out of other bases.
Now as far as training goes, you are correct, there will be no classes, and as a result senior EMB guys will not be able to bid LAX.
Yes, correct but everyone keeps talking about all those MRY pilots. Well there are only 5 CA's and 7 FO's with several of the MRY FO's being pretty JR. So in essence we are only moving 8-9 pilots, who probably don't want to move seeing they are CA's and live there, elsewhere and who says they will even want LAX?
This is a very small problem and it’s not worth dwelling over. Yes it will be a huge change in QOL for those who live in MRY but it’s not like what happened to ASA when SKW shut down SLC.