Originally Posted by
farmerjohn
The JCBA that is being negotiated is a contract. Either / or must be contained in a contractual language. Then, only then, does seniority come into play.
At CAL, there are open trip trades, mutual trades, out of base trades, pick ups, drops and even a few more choices. Sounds good, but in reality a pilot can expect to fly the line that PBS gave them with no chance of improvement. The problem is the pilots are legally timed out, or there are no reserves (the Company has total say over minimum reserve coverage and changes it from day to day, even hour to hour).
It’s like being a tiger at a salad bar…lots of choices though.
Nice analogy.
That really about sums it up at UA as well regarding trading, vacation drops, etc. The parameters are set by CM.
As far as JCBA first, that seems to be the plan of the joint MEC's. If you want though, you can see that the ALPA directives can always be modified by joint agreement of the parties.
Personally, JCBA first is the smartest way to go IMO.
Frats,
Lee