Originally Posted by Luckydawg

I thought the only way to go back to FE was to be displaced to FE. In the displacement bid can an FO bidding FE actually be awarded it?

Roberto, this is your quote from before.

"I think the number of additional FO's that end up as FE's after the displacement will about equal the number of senior FE's who receive bid awards. I think this number will be about 30 or so. It was 28.

From the Realignment Vacancy Bid, a lot of junior FE's will receive FO awards. That could be deceiving. After the Displacement Bid, because of their juniority, they will be displaced right back to the FE seat, along with those additional FO's replacing the senior FE's who left. There were 39 junior FE's who received FO awards.

Some CPT/FO's in SDF may choose downgrade over ANC, which will decrease the ANC numbers displaced." Like Salty...

If this is the way it works, the only openings are DC8 FE's when you get to the most junior FO's, then we have about 72 heading that way via displacement. UPS chose to draw down the CPT and FO positions but not the panel, therefore there are still 143 positions. (There were 140 on the RefSenList prior to 09-101. There are 73 now on the RefSenList prior to 09-201.) I know of several that would rather bid it because they are sick of the commute, I hope they are awarded.