FDX-15-01 Practice Bid Out
#11
So 141 57FM training into new seats and they have 4 57FM set to replace them. I'm guessing the rest will be newhires. It looks like they are planning to pay a lot of Passover pay and just keep the 57FM seats filled, unless there's after the fact manipulation.
#12
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Position: 767 FO
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I am not sure how passover pay works, but it would nice if the union would put out one of their "here's how to do this" emails covering passover pay.
I get it that you have to bid a higher seat and not be awarded it, but I don't get how percentage bidding would factor in.
I would think (I don't know) that you would have to bid a seat at 100% in order to get passover pay.
If you bid a higher paying seat at say, 70%, and they gave it to a new hire that is in the 99% range, how does that get you passover pay?
I get it that you have to bid a higher seat and not be awarded it, but I don't get how percentage bidding would factor in.
I would think (I don't know) that you would have to bid a seat at 100% in order to get passover pay.
If you bid a higher paying seat at say, 70%, and they gave it to a new hire that is in the 99% range, how does that get you passover pay?
76H 10%, 75M 10%, 76M 40%, 75M 20%, 77-76-11-Bus 100%. That way I either get 75 at 20% or get a WB and become eligible for Passover.
This bid is a little different in that it you have to predict where you want to be 2 years out. If you think you might want to move in two years you might as well bid to get passover pay while you are waiting.
Last edited by FDXLAG; 05-20-2015 at 06:16 AM.
#13
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Given the limited availability of 75/76 sims, is there an advantage for the company to hire 75/76 typed pilots with experience in type, such as a shorter curriculum requiring less sim sessions? Any word whether 75/76 typed applicants will be given any preferential look?
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Given the limited availability of 75/76 sims, is there an advantage for the company to hire 75/76 typed pilots with experience in type, such as a shorter curriculum requiring less sim sessions? Any word whether 75/76 typed applicants will be given any preferential look?
#15
Given the limited availability of 75/76 sims, is there an advantage for the company to hire 75/76 typed pilots with experience in type, such as a shorter curriculum requiring less sim sessions? Any word whether 75/76 typed applicants will be given any preferential look?
#16
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is there an advantage for the company to hire 75/76 typed pilots with experience in type, such as a shorter curriculum requiring less sim sessions?
#17
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Joined APC: Nov 2006
Position: 767 FO
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I am not sure how passover pay works, but it would nice if the union would put out one of their "here's how to do this" emails covering passover pay.
I get it that you have to bid a higher seat and not be awarded it, but I don't get how percentage bidding would factor in.
I would think (I don't know) that you would have to bid a seat at 100% in order to get passover pay.
If you bid a higher paying seat at say, 70%, and they gave it to a new hire that is in the 99% range, how does that get you passover pay?
I get it that you have to bid a higher seat and not be awarded it, but I don't get how percentage bidding would factor in.
I would think (I don't know) that you would have to bid a seat at 100% in order to get passover pay.
If you bid a higher paying seat at say, 70%, and they gave it to a new hire that is in the 99% range, how does that get you passover pay?
You will not get passover for a seat unless you bid and can hold it. The company can not put a new hire into a seat unless there is a vacancy. Therefore if you bid every WB seat at 100% it would be impossible to have a new hire go to a seat you didnt have a chance at. One caveat, it is probable that a new hire may not be put directly into a Mem 76 seat and if you are awarded it instead of another WB seat you would not get passover pay when they hire drectly into those seats.
#18
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About 120 pilots on the practice bid have decided to stay in the 757 FO seat at narrowbody pay. The most junior of these would rather be 35% in the right seat of the 757 than collect WB FO pay for up to 2 years in Passover pay (while still in the 757) and then be either 69% in the Bus or 72% in the MD.
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