Originally Posted by
Mason32
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.
I understand that if you are displaced period that you are not seat locked, proffer or not. But you still can't proffer to displace if you are currently seat locked. I have read the contract and the summary both on jetnet and from the union.
Here it is straight from "Displacement, Furlough, and Recall 101"
There are some special displacement options to con-
sider. The Eagle ALPA contract allows for a displace-
ment bidding option known as “Proffer to Displace.”
This option, if exercised by a pilot, allows a senior
pilot to displace out of a bid status instead of a jun-
ior pilot who would otherwise be involuntarily dis-
placed. This occurs instead of the company’s
displacing pilots from a bid status in inverse senior-
ity order.
However, in order for that senior pilot to
be eligible for this option, that pilot must:
• Currently hold the same bid status as the
junior pilot being displaced; and
• Not be under obligation of a training freeze;
and
• Not be a probationary pilot proffering to dis-
place to a captain bid status.