If anything our side may be more limited in movement because half our pilot group is seat locked at any given time due to all the fleet changes which prevents movement in displacements or regular bids.

 

No no no. Every FO is bidding CA and all SEA CA s are being displaced to *check notes SFO FO.

 

No it’s always been like this. You’ll get used to it. A lot of people are waking up from the hangover of celebrating opening a SAN base to realizing they can’t hold it, hundreds of families lives will be disrupted and we aren’t really even growing much if at all. We are just shifting flying around the chessboard.

 

A displaced pilot can go into any category where there is a pilot junior to them. A senior pilot needs a vacancy to be awarded a spot.

 

This is correct.

With SFO having a high commuter percentage with senior CAs, I see a lot of them taking SAN. Hell, several live there. Everyone in PHX who can hold it will probably take it, as there is more frequency to SAN than SFO. I think the flying will be better out of SAN too, so if you already commute, it might make sense just to commute to SAN. DM is out of his mind if he thinks everyone will just live there lol. Good to see the dinosaurs still not understanding how the airlines work...SAN will be another high commuter base, and I bet we have the same FO issues there that we do in SFO. It's another hyper-expensive base, and AS will continue to ONLY interview people who live in Gig Harbor, just to push them into SAN as a new hire. His statement inside that email was demoralizing and depressing. They will say and do anything except properly staffing the airline and fixing the real issues.

I actually think this will result in minimal pain on the CA side. I hate seeing two bases reduced, but I don't think we see a bunch of forced downgrades.

 

So the solution is displace before vacancy. Least harm? And yet that’s not how the company does things. Curious why.

 

Would that actually change anything or is just something to be mad about?

 

Personally, I like DM. When he was in the CP office he went to bat a few times for me compared to his counterpart at that time. How ever I don't like the way the last paragraph was worded to us especially when we get emails and praise about how professional and great our pilot group is.

The company hates training cycles and pilots not flying the line. The timing of SAN opening is a bit strange to me as there are many variables over the next year that could bring massive training events. I'm sure they had multiple people run financial scenarios about opening the SAN base now vs later along with displacements, upgrades, but the biggest variable to me is what does basing and flying look like when the SLI is completed but obviously, thats a ways off.

 

I’m not going to SD, but having the company offer vacancies before displacements seems to be manipulation. Living in a multiverse with multiple bases for the same fleet type vs numerous fleets in a single base does open one up to abuse. See Spirit and Frontier. CBA seems to come to mind…

 

What does your contract state?