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Since some pilots who would have been bought off will now fly something else, the net result could be a few more pilots on reserve.
So, this is why this affects 100% of the pilots. The FOs bidding lca lose. Followed by everyone else who benefited from them talking a dIve in schedule quality to get any lca trip. Next, regular FOs who had holidays and weekends off but now lose those thanks to fewer of those trips in the pool. Next are those who were close to good schedules. Now those are bad. Next barely holding a line, reserve.
And those trips that were wanted by an FO that were pulled, they end up in open time after the lca swaps or drops them.
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some compromise was needed to achieve the gains in this agreement. The gains affect all pilots on the seniority list regardless of seat position. Specifically, improved reroute language, rotation construction and trip mix were top priorities for the Atlanta pilots.
I bet if the survey had said how they plan to implement this oe language that the number one priority would've been to make it go away. I don't recall losing oe bidding a having been in the cards when the survey was sent to us.