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- Feb 9, 2015
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How does an employee believe he should be able to bid and fly an aircraft that never existed on his original certificate above someone who at the time currently staffed that airplane?
I am quoting myself here because I can just see the responses to what I've posted.
The East is going to pick that out and claim, that is why we were so upset!
The west never had widebody airplanes yet they are able to now bid and be senior to us that have always had them.
Not fair, in their eyes.
But let's examine this.
For every west guy that bids and is awarded a widebody seat, doesn't that translate to a vacancy on the narrow body airplane they are leaving? A position that didn't exist at the original East certificate? An east FO on the 320 just moved from FO to Capt because that west guy took the 330 position. A vacancy was created and was filled. A process unable to be executed absent the merger and addition of all those airplanes.
This isn't even touching on the what, 20+ 330s that have been added to the fleet as a result of the original merger. Only present because of the original merger.
I am quoting myself here because I can just see the responses to what I've posted.
The East is going to pick that out and claim, that is why we were so upset!
The west never had widebody airplanes yet they are able to now bid and be senior to us that have always had them.
Not fair, in their eyes.
But let's examine this.
For every west guy that bids and is awarded a widebody seat, doesn't that translate to a vacancy on the narrow body airplane they are leaving? A position that didn't exist at the original East certificate? An east FO on the 320 just moved from FO to Capt because that west guy took the 330 position. A vacancy was created and was filled. A process unable to be executed absent the merger and addition of all those airplanes.
This isn't even touching on the what, 20+ 330s that have been added to the fleet as a result of the original merger. Only present because of the original merger.