Here's your answer from a slide in the video I posted earlier, about 5 min in. It is alpa...so lie flat.

"BID AWARD PROCEDURES
An FDA pilot may be assigned (which was the old excess) out of an FDA
An assigned FDA pilot may elect to delay his required training until the fulfillment of his commitment period."

Everyone should bid M57F on the practice bids just to mess with their forecasting.

"the pilot’s failure to bid, at 100%, a crew position that the pilot could have been awarded, with a rate of pay the same or higher than the New Hire Junior Activation Compensation"

Looks like it. Buried in 24.

Yeah, that will show them :rolleyes:. You know that they set the minimum and maximum in each seat before the bid opens. Do you really think that they care who goes to what seat? The only thing they may do is get as many pilots they can to the lowest paying seats as soon as possible. The "practice" bid will not change that. If you were hired in the last 2 years or are a bottom 5% captain, be prepared.

I doubt the company makes any decisions off the practice bid.

there is a reason the practice bids come
out almost instantly and it takes up to 7 days for the final bid to come out.

Looks like there are still a lot of pilots who have not gone to training off of the 21-01 bid. How would a realignment bid affect those who have not gone to training? Would this effectively cancel that bid?

24. D. 2.
A pilot’s superseding award/assignment shall take precedence over his prior award/assignment, if any, and his training will correspond to that superseding award/assignment, unless his current crew position is subject to Fleet Retirement and/or Base Closure, in which case the Company may require him to activate first to his prior award/assignment, and thereafter to his superseding award/assignment as follows: a. If the pilot could have held the superseding crew position on the System Bid from which his prior award/assignment resulted, then he shall immediately be eligible for training slot awards/assignment from among currently available training slots. b. If the pilot could not have held the superseding crew position on the System Bid from which his prior award/assignment resulted, then the award/assignment of his training slot for the superseding crew position shall be handled in accordance with Section 24.D.4.

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I was told by a union rep last year that all of that contract language was irrelevant since the leftovers from the 21-01 bid were settled via a side letter between the company and the union, and not via a typical bid-for-training process as per the contract.

Are you thinking of the 777 20-01 folks?

Ah, yep, you're right.

I never learned to read.