Newest A320 Captain

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So I went to the 330 for a few months, didn't realize I had left a bid in for the 320 during a late night, and potentially half drunk "rage" and never thought I'd get it but I did.

So @PeanuckleCRJ goes to the 330, spends a few months (even a month yet?) and, well, he "Pulled a Derg" and is our newest A320 captain!

Enjoy that seat lock! :)
 
Hilariously the 320 is down to a little under 2 years in NYC and that 330 bid isn't so 'hilarious' anymore for after my seat lock is up next week.

This makes me very nervous because the last couple times things were going hot and heavy in the airline business, bad things happened and the music stopped. It almost feels like that mad dog captain bragging about how well his Webvan stock was doing and how he was going long on Pets.com
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Oh man, you mean the quick upgrade, at 3.5 yrs, Sprit is selling the new hires as a reason to accept the atrocious pay isn't accurate? Say it isn't so?!?

Congrats to the newest left-handed bus driver.
 
Derg said:
Hilariously the 320 is down to a little under 2 years in NYC and that 330 bid isn't so 'hilarious' anymore for after my seat lock is up next week.

This makes me very nervous because the last couple times things were going hot and heavy in the airline business, bad things happened and the music stopped. It almost feels like that mad dog captain bragging about how well his Webvan stock was doing and how he was going long on Pets.comView attachment 38841
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I actually owned one of those puppets. My only souvenir from working at a dotcom 1.0 pre-IPO startup.
 
Derg said:
Hilariously the 320 is down to a little under 2 years in NYC and that 330 bid isn't so 'hilarious' anymore for after my seat lock is up next week.
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Are you not eligible to bid until the seat lock is actually up? (i.e. couldn't bid on this last bid even though you wouldn't have been sent to training yet?)
 
Dan208B said:
Are you not eligible to bid until the seat lock is actually up? (i.e. couldn't bid on this last bid even though you wouldn't have been sent to training yet?)
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No. Seat lock commences at bid award, and you must be up BEFORE the bid closes,so everyone is locked for two years, even if it takes up to one year to go to training. This is a 365 day conversion window bid. They are allowed one a year. All other AEs must have training completed within 3 months.
However, you CAN bid out of a seat lock if
1. It's your first captain bid.
2. It's a new category. So, on the next bid, when they open the C series, anyone can bid it, even guys with a seat lock.
3. At the company's discretion.
 
Cptnchia said:
No. Seat lock commences at bid award, and you must be up BEFORE the bid closes,so everyone is locked for two years, even if it takes up to one year to go to training. This is a 365 day conversion window bid. They are allowed one a year. All other AEs must have training completed within 3 months.
However, you CAN bid out of a seat lock if
1. It's your first captain bid.
2. It's a new category. So, on the next bid, when they open the C series, anyone can bid it, even guys with a seat lock.
3. At the company's discretion.
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You mean as long as your seat lock is up before the first conversion date on an AE right? ;)
 
Cptnchia said:
No. Seat lock commences at bid award, and you must be up BEFORE the bid closes,so everyone is locked for two years, even if it takes up to one year to go to training. This is a 365 day conversion window bid. They are allowed one a year. All other AEs must have training completed within 3 months.
However, you CAN bid out of a seat lock if
1. It's your first captain bid.
2. It's a new category. So, on the next bid, when they open the C series, anyone can bid it, even guys with a seat lock.
3. At the company's discretion.
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ClarkGriswold said:
You mean as long as your seat lock is up before the first conversion date on an AE right? ;)
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this. let's not spread wrong information.
 
Something like that!

More specifically:

during which the pilot will (unless declared eligible by the Company) be ineligible to be awarded another AE with an earliest conversion date falling within the freeze period (other than to a new or reestablished category) for which qualification training is required.

So, what is the earliest conversion date? Usually the day after the bid closes.
 
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Cptnchia said:
Something like that!

More specifically:

during which the pilot will (unless declared eligible by the Company) be ineligible to be awarded another AE with an earliest conversion date falling within the freeze period (other than to a new or reestablished category) for which qualification training is required.

So, what is the earliest conversion date? Usually the day after the bid closes.
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Try again. Typically next bid period.
 
ClarkGriswold said:
Try again. Typically next bid period.
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Cptnchia said:
Something like that!

More specifically:

during which the pilot will (unless declared eligible by the Company) be ineligible to be awarded another AE with an earliest conversion date falling within the freeze period (other than to a new or reestablished category) for which qualification training is required.

So, what is the earliest conversion date? Usually the day after the bid closes.
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what @ClarkGriswold said. If what you are trying to say were the case, I wouldnt have been awarded on the last AE. My seat lock expired after the AE closed but before the conversion date, aka the first day of the next bid period.


aaaand even if you didn't believe that, there is the disclaimer in every single AE, this one "Training dates could be as early as the June 2017 bid period"
 
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