View Poll Results: Displace back to FO or Commute for Left Seat?
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07-26-2025 | 09:05 PM
#31
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When this downgrade bid hits I will finally be pushed out of DFW. I spent all day hitting up my previous union reps for internals but I’m afraid a few check ride failures might hurt me. I really wish I would have taken the hint two years ago when the entire MEC started to offload. I can take the pay hit but I can’t commute forever nor would I move for this dumpster fire.
07-27-2025 | 05:32 AM
#33
Line Holder
Joined: Jan 2011
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See your posts re Breeze/FJ. I don’t understand your calculus how starting over at either off those 2 is better than staying. Yeah commuting blows, but I’m imagining you’d be a senior FO if downgrading was your choice.🤷♂️
07-27-2025 | 06:06 AM
#35
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Joined: Mar 2011
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Can a base closure/downgrade bid technically result in upgrades based on shuffle of more senior FOs taking the residual CA vacancies in other bases, then displacing junior CAs to FO?
This bid, if true, will be disgustingly messy. It was one thing last time with reductions in bases but full base closures (very senior bases) will really flip things upside down and have massive residual effects.
This bid, if true, will be disgustingly messy. It was one thing last time with reductions in bases but full base closures (very senior bases) will really flip things upside down and have massive residual effects.
07-27-2025 | 06:27 AM
#37
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 131
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Anyone else hear about the downgrades coming? IAH Captain and looking at weighing my options between downgrading or between commuting to Florida. Kid headed into college so I can’t really afford the downgrade, but my QOL is about to tank. Just added a bunch of 135 Apps out there since I haven’t had ANY luck with Legacies calling me.
For those bottom Captains about to get displaced, what’s yall plans, commute, or downgrade to avoid commuting?
For those bottom Captains about to get displaced, what’s yall plans, commute, or downgrade to avoid commuting?
07-27-2025 | 06:33 AM
#38
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Joined: Jul 2025
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I think the merger ship has sailed at this point. Extremely unlikely from what I gather. I just wish B6 would have never came into the picture at least we would be fighting the good fight as F9 pilots.
07-27-2025 | 06:53 AM
#39
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Joined: Jan 2018
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07-27-2025 | 06:53 AM
#40
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Joined: Aug 2020
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Your seat doesn’t have anything to do with SLI in a merger. It only matters moving forward after it is published. If already in the seat, you typically continue to hold it unless your base shrinks and there’s a displacement bid. If you bid down to the right seat prior to a merger your final seniority ends up in exactly the same place, you just get more relative seniority until you can later bid back to the left. Career expectations are weighed at the pilot group level and not individual.
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