OCCP....Line bidding, 1st and 2nd step trading, open flying lines and JCTE are your new tools.We get that you like your old tools...we would probably like them too under the right circumstances.....They are going away for awhile..maybe forever. Learn the new tools, not at all like the old tools.....

There will be a reduction bid on the Airbus side this fall, after the JFK pilots come out west. 60 pilots will be going to the Boeing.

Most certainly not forever

Where did you get this info from? Just a rumor or did I miss an email?

Source? I'll be honest.....I love the bus....but if a 737 base were to reemerge in JFK.....ill be the first mo'fo to wear a "if its not a boeing, I aint going!" teeshirt :D

So does that mean some planes are getting parked?

Because they routinely short staff the airline to the point that all the instructors are required for summer line flying. They shoved tons of recurrent to Sept/Oct in the past to make those pilots available for line ops.

Don't see why they'd change now.

Crew Meals
 

After having crew meals for the past week, I totally understand why the pilots voted for crew meals as opposed to a per diem increase or meal stipend. I mean, why would I want to choose my own meal? Alaska airlines has my best interest in mind, that’s why they always provide complete, nutritious, healthy meals that will help me keep my medical till I’m 65.

For that matter, why would I want to build my own schedule? Line bidding is way better. Because Alaska airlines is a family oriented airline that will most certainly build lines that take into account my well being from a work/life balance standpoint. I LOVE 12 hour three days with circadian swaps. And I hate choosing my days off. I’m tired of being able to see my family on all of life's major events.

In fact, I’d also trust management to choose my apartment and my future wife. I have seen that the company is always kind hearted and does the right thing.

Now back to my kings feast of fruit-loops and a granola bar.

I was probably drinking since I posted it as fact instead of stating that it was a rumor I heard at recurrent :)

Word was that we had one or two more new hire classes going through, meanwhile JFK was closing and those pilots get to displace out west... then a reduction bid for 60 Airbus guys to come over to Boeing (not parking planes just heavy on Airbus guys as planes are taken down for interior and paint etc and Airbus crews flying more block hours), then new hires resume in Nov.

Sounds like a lot.. we’ll have to see what happens.

Sadly I was halfway through this before I realized /S.
The thing is, most companies want us to accept PBS, which makes me think line-bidding should be better for us, no?