viper548

It's out. S-80 is gone. LGA 767 displacements as well. Showing a reduction to 20 CA and 20 FO. Lots of CA vacancies and 11 G4 FO vacancies. With 350 S-80 displacements plus however many LGA 767 displacements that's probably not going to result in that many new upgrades.

nimslow

Make sure your displacement preferences are up to date, and reflect what you want, or are willing to accept.

Might be critically important if you are junior in DFW, or a junior G2 CA, or G4 FO.

drinksonme

Oh yippee, it’s so fun to be in 787 training right now as a junior FO on the plane. Can’t wait for this bid to close......

Honestly would love to go back to the status and plane I was on, not because I don’t want the 787, but having displacement rights would be fine with me after this shakes out. With 24 more 787 coming online in the next few years, AA finally getting the planes out of service they want, and massive retirements, I don’t think this will upset the apple cart too much. Well except for the company having additional training for people they are training now on specific airplane that get displaced, and then having to retrain them again on the same plane once the displacement rights kick in, but they are no longer current on the new plane they already have a type on. Also, where I am at, I’ll have to retrain for my old equipment again as well if I get displaced. Looking at it, I could have 3-4 training cycles in over the course of 18-24 months. Gotta be a pain for training

nimslow

I'm dangerously close to the plug as a G2 CA in DFW. If I get displaced, I'll probably go to 787 FO in DFW, get the type and use my reinstatement right back to G2 CA when I can. The only way I'll consider commuting for G2 CA again is if I cant hold G2 CA or G4 FO in DFW when this all shakes out.

isuguy

If you are a 320/D guy in LGA and wanna be a 320/I guy in LA, how does that work in a vacancy bid like this as a new hire? For instance, you get LGA 320/D in the drop, and you wanna bid LA 320/I. Difficult to get the international tng to make that happen? Or something else involved I don't know about as a noob?

cactusmike

Not at all. Just bid it and if there is an opening and you have the seniority then you will be awarded that position. Once you have the award they will set you up for training. This is true for any new position.

I have always had an international qual so I’m not sure what is entailed going from domestic to international but I’m pretty sure it’s a quick fix, especially for an F/O.

viper548

You can also use the mutual base exchange on the APA website to switch bases. They will allow you to switch divisions if the company can accommodate the international training.

isuguy

Cool thanks for the info

Dobbs18

At the beginning of mutual base exchanges for everyone they let a lot of people who were /domestic bid into CLT which is only /international. They were only domestic for a little while, only reason I know is bc on rsv I got called for trips unexpectedly when they went international and had to bypass those people. Not sure what the current procedure now is though...just looked at the June MBE and 2 FOs that were DOM were awarded /INT positions.

BOGSAT

Maybe the results will be out in less than 3 weeks? LoL

I wonder why so long? Is it the same at other places? It can’t be.