Envoy 2019
01-10-2019, 10:27 AM
#141
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Joined APC: Jul 2016
Position: FO
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Envoy 2019
Originally Posted by pitchattitude
You are right. Very few understand the process. Because preferencing DOES increase your odds of getting what you want.
There were those that could have gotten what the wanted had they preferenced but did not because they only had displacements listed.
And if you aren’t changing equipment, you aren’t eligible for the 5 hour override. If NOBODY preferenced it would work. As much as I, too, don’t think anyone should preference, all those guys in the 175 who HAVE to stay in the the 175 are doing the right thing (for them) with a preference.
There were those that could have gotten what the wanted had they preferenced but did not because they only had displacements listed.
And if you aren’t changing equipment, you aren’t eligible for the 5 hour override. If NOBODY preferenced it would work. As much as I, too, don’t think anyone should preference, all those guys in the 175 who HAVE to stay in the the 175 are doing the right thing (for them) with a preference.
So your saying reading the gists and points from ALPA emails about bidding & also occasionally following what’s being discussed on APC by fellow pilots & crew room talk, and terminal discussions over coffee time has its benefits?????
Awesome! $8-9K value.
01-10-2019, 11:33 AM
#143
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Joined APC: Dec 2016
Posts: 49
Originally Posted by Varsity
High level source; (all pilots would know the name so redacted).
Envoy will hire "more than 1,000 pilots" in 2019.
Envoy will hire "more than 1,000 pilots" in 2019.
01-10-2019, 12:52 PM
#146
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: middle seat in the back
Posts: 232
Originally Posted by Varsity
High level source; (all pilots would know the name so redacted).
Envoy will hire "more than 1,000 pilots" in 2019.
Envoy will hire "more than 1,000 pilots" in 2019.
Training department can't handle that many.
01-10-2019, 02:00 PM
#149
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Joined APC: Oct 2017
Posts: 262
Originally Posted by mketch11
So long as there are displacements of all eligible FOs, it does not increase your odds. Read the contract section about simultaneous vacancy and displacement. When it tells you to reference the section on displacements, and you actually go back and read, you will understand that a displaced pilot will be able to displace to what he can hold regardless of preference bids below him/her.
01-10-2019, 02:00 PM
#150
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Joined APC: Jun 2014
Posts: 210
Originally Posted by Varsity
Goal/Target.
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