Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
And one I ran into the other day with a DALN pilot was about the 777 DTW in that its not a fenced aircraft if its a new category. I'm 90% positive that a 744 and 777 are fenced until the fences are dropped regardless of there being new categories like DTW 777 or say 747 NYC.
I can't see where he got that idea - here's what the SLI award said:
4. For the period of five (5) years beginning with the first bid period after the issuance of the Single Operating Certificate (SOC), no pre-merger Northwest pilot may be awarded or displaced to a vacancy on a B777 aircraft or category and no pre-merger Delta pilot may be awarded or displaced to a B787 or B747 vacancy.
and the explanation of the conditions and restrictions says:
Paragraph 4 (Position Fences): This paragraph contains the description of what is commonly referred to as a “fence.” The Panel stated on page 26 of the Award that it decided only to apply a fence to “premium flying” and defined that term as all flying performed on the NWA 747/787 and the DAL 777. The language states that position vacancies on these aircraft must be awarded to pilots from the appropriate pre-merger pilot group. During the processing of vacancies and surpluses and the award of AE/MD/VDs in accordance with Section 22 of the PWA, all positions on these aircraft must remain “within” the pre-merger pilot group unless an insufficient number of pilots in that group have bids for, or are eligible for, an award (we will discuss insufficient bidders in Paragraph 7). This paragraph applies until the first bid period that occurs five years after the issuance of an SOC to the Company.