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#101
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It's been very frustrating for 756 hires that had no choice on equipment and live in DEN, IAH, ORD. Almost 3 years seniority to hold ORD. 73/Bus pilots junior to us are bidding on to our equipment while we have to wait out a 2 year seatlock to be based at home.
Whining done....
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#102
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Position: guppy CA
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It's been very frustrating for 756 hires that had no choice on equipment and live in DEN, IAH, ORD. Almost 3 years seniority to hold ORD. 73/Bus pilots junior to us are bidding on to our equipment while we have to wait out a 2 year seatlock to be based at home.
Whining done....
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#103
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Position: A320 FO
Posts: 382
I don’t mind the venting but I will say which seats are yours? Definitely not the vacant seats jr pilots are holding. I too commuted while jr pilots held IAH. It sucked but I never said hey that’s my seat....why? Because if it was mine then I would have been in it.
Try a base trade. Otherwise all those jr guys are going to make your QOL better for the rest of your career.
Try a base trade. Otherwise all those jr guys are going to make your QOL better for the rest of your career.
#104
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I don’t mind the venting but I will say which seats are yours? Definitely not the vacant seats jr pilots are holding. I too commuted while jr pilots held IAH. It sucked but I never said hey that’s my seat....why? Because if it was mine then I would have been in it.
Try a base trade. Otherwise all those jr guys are going to make your QOL better for the rest of your career.
Try a base trade. Otherwise all those jr guys are going to make your QOL better for the rest of your career.
#105
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It’s one thing to knowingly take a 2yr seat lock into the 777 and know what you’re getting. It’s another to be forced into a 756 which will keep you on the coasts for 2yrs. So yes, I can understand those frustrated watching people junior scoop up their home town in a vacancy. For once AA beats us at something, seat lock rules for new hires.
*Some* sort of seat lock has to exist unless you want all of your profit sharing diverted down the training drain hole. Currently a newhire here could go from 737 to 756 to 777 in successive vacancies if they wanted. That’s pretty incredible.
The company’s gotta fill seats and has to decide where pilots go when they come in the door. One solution could be to incentivize the 756 fleet w/ better pay but someone’s always going to get the short end of the stick. My 2year newhire 756 seatlock took me to some awesome places and had me flying w/ some phenomenal crews. If that’s the price to pay to work here than it suits me fine. Just one guy’s opinion.
#106
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It’s one thing to knowingly take a 2yr seat lock into the 777 and know what you’re getting. It’s another to be forced into a 756 which will keep you on the coasts for 2yrs. So yes, I can understand those frustrated watching people junior scoop up their home town in a vacancy. For once AA beats us at something, seat lock rules for new hires.
#107
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Shack. You sir nailed it.
#108
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Position: A320 FO
Posts: 382
Rv
It sucks.
I would rather have an option that you carry your seat lock forward once a career so a new hire could bid off the 756 to lower band to be based at home but then would take an equipment lock of 2 years plus the balance of your initial lock....say you bid down after 6 months on property then your new lock would be 3.5 years. However we are suppose to have a sizable bid next month (December not the November one) and if that is true I would imagine you will be happy then......also consider bidding up to the 777 and hope to go 92 days past the effective date and then use 8-F-9 to bump to the desired equipment and base....
My point is there are ways to break the lock.
Good luck
It sucks.
I would rather have an option that you carry your seat lock forward once a career so a new hire could bid off the 756 to lower band to be based at home but then would take an equipment lock of 2 years plus the balance of your initial lock....say you bid down after 6 months on property then your new lock would be 3.5 years. However we are suppose to have a sizable bid next month (December not the November one) and if that is true I would imagine you will be happy then......also consider bidding up to the 777 and hope to go 92 days past the effective date and then use 8-F-9 to bump to the desired equipment and base....
My point is there are ways to break the lock.
Good luck
#109
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It’s one thing to knowingly take a 2yr seat lock into the 777 and know what you’re getting. It’s another to be forced into a 756 which will keep you on the coasts for 2yrs. So yes, I can understand those frustrated watching people junior scoop up their home town in a vacancy. For once AA beats us at something, seat lock rules for new hires.
That coast to coast commute I did as a new hire with a smile on my face must’ve been a way worse deal than I realized.
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