Originally Posted by
Pontius Pilot
I spoke directly with a lawyer at the ALPA MEC office for Eagle. I was told that if I were seat locked that my 3P would be ignored. I had no ability to preference bid anything in the displacement except for the equipment I already fly. Only my 3D was necessary to fill out if I did not want to proffer to displace to DFW on the ATR. It was explained to me that 3P would go towards vacancies that I wasn't seat locked out of (ie the aforementioned DFW ATR) and 3D would be valid if I were displaced.
My feeling is this whole thing is absolutely screwed up and should probably be voided and rebid. There are too many errors in it -- and it was not explained in any way, shape or form that could be considered adequate for something with so great importance. I'm not even sure those examples were in English. I'm not a lawyer, don't pretend to be, don't play one on TV -- what chance did any of us have understanding 1/2 the crap the company put out? I don't understand legalese.
That's is what I've been saying. The 3D is the displacement, and there is no seat lock on a displacement bid. The 3P is a bid preference, and you can not bid to a vacancy while under seat lock... that didn't change. The confusion is people don't understand that you can proffer to displace on the DISPLACEMENT 3D bid with no seat lock. In other words, if you are displaced from your current seat, your 3D list would be the way to get yourself out of your current aircraft and/or base regardless of seat lock status.
In your case, you would not even have to list your current status first in the 3D.... since if you were displaced by a more senior person, they would just go down your 3D list and you would get whatever you could hold. However, by putting your current status first (which you wouldn't hold in this scenario) all of your subsequent 3D bids would be involuntary displacements and you would get moving expenses. Putting them above your current status woudl be read as a proffer to displace and you would not get moving expenses.