I. TRAINING FREEZE
1. A pilot who voluntarily bids for and is awarded a permanent vacancy that requires upgrade training or training on a different equipment type will be subject to a fourteen (14) month training freeze, except that:
a. Each of the first one-hundred twenty-five (125) turbojet Captains will be subject to a training freeze of eighteen (18) months.
b. Thereafter, all turbojet Captains will be subject to a training freeze of twenty-four (24) months.
c. All newhire pilots will be subject to a training freeze of twelve (12) months. (Interest Arbitration 2001).
2. A training freeze will commence fourteen (14) days prior to the day said pilot is scheduled to report for training for his new position. If a pilot is withheld from a position his training freeze will run concurrent with that of the junior pilot who enters training for the same vacancy.
3. Pilots subject to a training freeze will not be awarded a permanent vacancy for a different status, except as provided in paragraph I. 4. a. and b., and J. 1. and 2. below. Pilots subject to a training freeze will not be precluded from bidding and being awarded a lateral bid status.