First off, MOU-7 will have absolutely no impact to me personally, however....
Originally Posted by
slowplay
As far as filling of vacancies, how many vacancies does a 15% systemwide reduction in block hours create? How many vacancies does a base closure create? How many vacancies does parking the entire fleet of 747-200's create? How many vacancies does parking 4 of 16 747-400 create?
Easy answer. Each creates displacements. No advancements.
From what I am hearing (I don't have the intel sources that you and many others on here do) is that the company is going to absorb the ANC positions by increasing positions in some categories. If there were 100 A330A positions prior to this next APA and after the APA there are 120 positions, that would be 20 positions that should be "awarded" based strictly on seniority (and how the North APA process worked up until the last APA), however, now they are going to be awarded out of seniority due to the anomalies created by the Roberts Award (that thing will never die
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I agree with you that the ANC closure should result in displacements, which would ripple down the list with many, many training cycles being generated. If it was only displacements generated, then the DC9-B (lowest paying position) should in fact increase staffing by however many pilots are being displaced out of ANC.
To me this is a part of the DAL PWA that needs to be addressed. There is no penalty for the company to close a base, since any new position would be "awarded" to someone being displaced out of a base.