Not necessarily, only if there are MORE junior pilots to them. They can go to whatever position that there is someone junior to them. The most junior 727 FO and FE is NOT junior to the most junior A300 FO (I think without looking at the list). More than likely they will go to the some 200 positions not filled by the last system bid. What will happen is some strategic bidding by captains, ie down bidding. This will occur to ensure they can "upgrade" to the plane they actually want in the next system bid later this year.

This is going to get really ugly pretty soon.
It is true that ultimatly, the discplaced pilots from the 727 are going to have full bumping rights to end up on whatever fleet and seat they can hold, but in this first round, can't they only go to the posted positions? I would think many would do better to just wait until the displacement round.

That's how I understand it. The way I'm looking at it is that there will probably be little movement on the realignment, and lots on the displacement.

I conquer, but then again, I don't understand everything I know about the subject. Seems like the better thing would be to just skip the realignment but for some reason, in the past the union has said it was better for us to do it this way.

If there were 200 unfilled FO positions last time around, why don't they show up on the vacancy/realignment bid? It seems funny that the company is saying no one will be forced to ANC.

Next question.... Will the senior 727 guys who move during displacement, actually start bumping the junior people or will they just add to the list of that particular fleet? If they start bumping junior people, the training involved with that would be very horrific. :eek:

All I can say is that there is PLENTY of room on the 75 domestic side. I got 3 JA calls in one day last week.

I'm sure since they're so short FO's on the 75, A300 and MD that there won't be many guys getting bumped off those lists by displacements. If anything junior 74 and DC-8 guys might get bumped. Or, to keep the training costs down they might not have anyone get bumped off any list. Who knows?

I don't recall the company ever saying they wouldn't force anyone to ANC. Maybe you're thinking of "there will be no reduction in the SDF MD11 Captain numbers due to the transition to F/O IROs."

I should of clarified. My buddy who is an 8 engineer called Craig L. and he told him he will be displaced to an FO position and he would not go to ANC because there are way too many unfilled FO positions in SDF????

Anyway, I hope the 72 guys realize the 74 is going away also. One is leaving in July. There probably will be another displacement bid this summer reducing the staffing on the 74. Unless you like training I wouldn't do it!

Fly good. :cool:

I think if I heard this right, for every new 747 on UPS grounds, a classic gets parked.