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.

I am not a lawyer but my understanding is: If you are awarded it at 70% and the new hire activates before you do you would be eligible for Passover. Percentage bidding gives you a chance to control QOL and balance money. I would go to HKG if I could be 10%. But if I would rather be 10% in a 75 than 40% in a 76 and 20% in a 75 rather than reserve in a WB my bid would look like:

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.

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?

The company says that they are looking for 757/767 pilots, so I'd say you'd be given a preferential look.

I may be wrong but I believe they will use the previous experience for consolidation purposes. I don't think they've done that before but they may be desperate now.

There's not even a short course to go from the right seat to the left seat, if you're on the 767.....

Just to clarify some things, if you have a specific question on bidding the union will give you an answer, if you call.

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.

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.

It's a practice bid. No one has decided anything yet.

So, Anymouse, I'm one of those. Are you guaranteeing that I will not be trained and paid passover? You know this for a fact?