Originally Posted by
Flaps50
If they put Captains over there with passover pay into the right seats they can furlough all day long and not create a problem with manning in that base. So I'd beware of bidding that if you can't actually go there. I guess if you fail to sign the letter then you can get out of it, (there is that note when you bid it though that says you are willing to sign the letter.) Not so sure what actual significance that has on signing the letter for real though.
$.02 is not worth much I know...
I don't see the F/O seat getting much more senior accept for maybe excessed guys pushed out the bottom of their current seats. The good news is they can bid HKG Capt and possibly get POP while flying in the right seat. They can not force a guy on POP for capt to go in the right seat. There is no penalty for not signing the letter; unless they make it part of the compromise.
The one thing I got out of our union comm this week is to make these bids as expensive as possible to fred. It is our only leverage. One way to make it expensive is to force a whole lot of passover pay. But I aint bidding it.