October 2012 can't come soon enough. Peak should be VERY interesting, with all the new high-mins captains in the system.

For some reason known only to decision makers (protecting passover for ....... maybe?), we are forbidden to have semi-regular, small or medium-sized bids. We have humongous bids once a year or 18 months or longer, that topple every domino in the system.

Result--chaos and confusion, unpredictability, and training letters that stretch out two years in the future. Just what we all want.

Are you listening, SCP and management? More to the point--do you care?

 

And the winning answer is NO. Ask the bean counters...

 

This is a large can of worms.

They want people lined up for training that may or may not occur. It's someone's job to make sure there are no hiccups in that department no matter how unlikely. The last Paris bid is an example. The company knew the French would not allow foreign labor law to apply. They were politicking to get an exception that Ryanair and EasyJet were unable to work. Should that conditional situation been communicated to the pilots?


http://uk.reuters.com/article/2010/0...6383E320100409

http://airobserver.wordpress.com/200...ch-labour-law/

Management casually let the pilots think the bid, and domicile, was a "done deal". Contracts were signed. Deposits paid. Families disrupted then disappointed and disrupted again.

Yes, they do care. Just not about what you and I care about.

They like it when we fret about bidding because there may not be another one until after we want to move. More interest to bid is generated in that environment.

 

Anybody who bids HKG after the latest fiasco has to be nuts.

 

If you have internet access to post on APC, then you have the contract handy on PFC.

 

Not without the grid

 

YGTBSM. Some people work way too hard at being lazy.

 

Windows grid program - MagicWebFx - magicwebfx.net
Mac grid program - FxEgrid -- fxpilot.info
iOS grid program - FxCal - iTunes app store
I only look at my grid when I need to get a new one!

 

And Droid?

 

Sux2bu