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There are a dozen or so MCO guys junior to that, but they got MCO Captain by doing base trades, not upgrading in Orlando.
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Can you explain a base trade? At my airline if your seniority can’t hold that base, then you don’t get that base awarded.
Are you saying two guys/gals can literally just trade bases with no regard for category seniority?
#30
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So seniority is honored since the base trade occurs in seniority order on a monthly basis, but only with regards to opposite trade requests. If only one person wants to trade MCO-JFK, but 3 people want JFK-MCO, the senior one gets it. So, it is definitely possible to trade into a base you can’t hold depending on the trading. A guy in LGB traded into LGB long before he could hold it, and a guy senior to him had forgotten to put his trade request in that month (it’s a monthly email you have to send in for each month’s trade, and he forgot the one month an opposite request came in), causing some consternation. But regardless, there is some seniority required to make to work.
Where it doesn’t honor seniority is say the senior LGB FO who could hold CA in another base but not in LGB, but a more junior guy goes to JFK to upgrade, then he base trades in before the more senior guy takes it on a bid. The guys who risked upgrade/commute to JFK for an undetermined amount of time got in, while he (more senior) who stayed put as an FO didn’t. Another scenario, say a more senior guy is a BOS 320 CA and wants MCO 320 CA, and there’s a more junior JFK 320 CA who wants MCO 320 CA, if there’s a MCO 320 CA who wants JFK 320 CA, the seniority doesn’t matter for the JFK/BOS guys—only the guy with the opposite trade request can get it.
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