Originally Posted by
slowplay
Of course you'd like some additional protection. You're way out of seniority in your current position (hundreds of domestic 767 and 73N Captains senior to you), so any downward movement risks you not getting back for several years. It's not unlike what happened when MCO closed, and the Express Captains had to wait several years til their seniority allowed them to hold mainline.
If I were in your shoes, I'd want the additional protections too. It's the only way you'll hold on to the job up there.
You are exactly right, although I am not currently out of seniority at all. And besides, all those guys had a chance to bid it when I did... before even, and they didn't. Now they just might benefit from the upturn after the downturn. And, there are a lot of narrowbody northies that are gonna get a run at it too when things start back up. I guess them's just the breaks... I still don't have to like it though.