Displacement 15-06D is out...
 

Displacement Bid 15-06D is now posted, and will close January 26 at noon CST. This bid will displace 20 DEN 320 captains, 20 IAH 737 captains, 10 ORD 76T captains and 10 ORD 76T first officers.

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And for those of you that were assured by management that they were not EVER going to displace....Yuuopp theeea it is.....

That's how you know they're lying...their lips are moving.

Hoss,

TOO FUNNY! "there will be no bumps!"

That, and of course ****canning the crappy old airbusses and those ancient 15 year old 400s...."those ratty old money losing, fuel guzzling 400s!!" ("they're gonna kill that poor woman!").

The youngest 747-400 is 12. Not even a teenager yet. Probably never kissed a girl either.

BUt but but but.. I dun been told by folks right here on APC that it was never going to happen....

Remember no secondaries either. I dun been told that too...

You lual boys are funny...what is it, like 50 pilots/ out of 12k plus..?
But, hey you lual guys said it first" crappy airbuses, old jumbos"...:D

Socal,

Slip into your Sanuks and relax. We're just poking fun at the experts who scolded us how on just how full of fecal material we've been WRT to things we figured were cast in stone irrespective of how they were portrayed initially, by either mgmt or the line pukes. Its just funny how the turd rolls once loosed from its constriction.

Sharpen your arrows for those who would give your job to a 21 year old or someone from Abu Dhabi who would do it for half of what you do. Beers are still on me.

IT's such a small number of pilots being displaced I just don't know how it makes sense. I get it if a base is closing. but otherwise they should just attrit due to normal retirement attrition and upgrade movement. 60 displacements won't matter in a year. I bet IAH gets those displaced pilots back in a year to a year and a half anyways. How much does it cost the company to displace them to other bases or other airplanes only to have them come back if they so choose in a year or so?

No mak-e sense to me

I agree. It seems to be a complete waste of time to me too...

There is actually a much larger number of "excess" pilots in IAH 737 CA, for example, and the small number of displacements only represents the generous threshold above which the company cannot financially justify retaining them and waiting for normal attrition.

The mere fact that the company is in the middle of a retirement/hiring wave only exemplifies the poor chain of manpower decisions over several years that lead to this point, IMHO, on an otherwise growing fleet.