It was most definitely on purpose! If at least one persons caught it, my work is complete.

Next years 76 “growth” will be just enough to stock the Indy base with LDS and the Mem 76 FO seat seems to be one of the heavier manned if you look at the Nov vacation buyback offer.

“I think the whole neighborhood knows you had an awesome time last night Frank.”

I know you know the contract, I also know a whole lot of people do not. Many of them get their info from here, jetflyers, crew bus, cockpit rumors or some concoction of them all. So while I know what you mean, there are plenty who don’t and who will run around with the wrong impression of what is and isn’t happening with respect to the new process.

I’m not missing your point, however your point is an opinion not a fact with respect to staffing. Neither of us have any concrete knowledge on what they ‘need’ to do staffing wise outside of the 10 slots they’ve admitted are urgent. We have no minimum staffing numbers in our contract. The company doesn’t share specific manninf data with us. While they stated it was possible a bid would be this fall, they’ve also stated that they may hold off till Spirng 18 and that the big bid in 16 had built in overages and could last two years. Seems that will be the case, but that still doesn’t mean any of us know the staffing numbers.

Iow, we’re talking a lot about vacancies but there’s nothing grievance worthy there. Now there are other portions of this section that would have qualified for a grievance absent this agreement. You and others have been debating that which is more than fair, I’m staying out of that. I just feel that mixing it all together can come off confusing for some. As for not giving a rip about what others do, I’m not sure there could be a more FedEx comment than that. This system isn’t new, it’s just new to us. A lot can be gleaned from how it’s worked elsewhere and why. A lot more than us sitting around in our bubble and working up our own doomsday theories.

Like Nightflyer’s FO concerned about a bump and flush on the next bid. It’s not a free for all system where we get to fully excercise our seniority on every bid regardless of vacancies. If we excess it will be for the same reasons as previous excesses-because they’re shrinking a category. It just won’t take two bids with the vacancy, then -1 dance anymore. Now my personal opinion is that there is little chance of Nightflyer’s FO getting excessed. I could detail why I think that, but it would only bring me way back to my original point about the Company controlling vacancies and us really only speculating them. On to the football then.

Several new hires on the 777 have told me that management has been telling them during indoc that they can't be bumped off the 777 because of the new Section 24. I had an FO argue this point with me for an hour. I pulled out my iPad and brought up the contract and showed him 24.C.2.c.

I told him "you're crazy if you think you're going to keep your 777 seat if a bunch of senior MD pilots are displaced off the MD. Where do you think they're going to go, to the 757?"

Assuming with what they post on the next big bid, there could be a lot of disillusioned purple nuggets.

Doesn't look like they will displace MD people anytime soon. Heard most new hires will goto 75 in the near future

Hearing 10/11 777s from Emirates and planning for 767 Newark to Paris flights:rolleyes: Could be big Jan/Feb posting

Since we’re talkin Rumors.....
 

Hearing...Indy to be a 777 and 757 base in the near future. 767’s all in MEM.
Confirmed by an Indy bus driver and the dude that delivered catering.

Are we getting Emirates birds?

Dual qual, Ind 777/757 bidpack? :D

Yes - it’s happening ;)

...then once the 767 gives the 757 lines back, the 777 guys can steal them

They need to “hook” all the short 757 trips (i.e. BHM, BNA, CHA) with the long 777 trips :D