loopa,loopa wrote:I have never been clear on this fact/rumor, but is it true that if you go to ROUGE, you have no chance of ever coming back to mainline? And that if you go to mainline and get pushed to rouge, you have a spot at mainline?
All of the above applied for initial hires obviously.
Thanks!
Not sure where you heard this but its false kind of. Your hired as an Air Canada pilot, when you start you course your given a number and your class will be told what equipment is available to bid on, Mainline aircraft or Rouge aircraft or both. As of now most all positions are Rouge because this is where the growth is. When your awarded your position as a new hire your frozen in this position for 4 years unless it don't require training (rouge 319 to mainline 320 your not frozen, rouge 767 to Mainline 767 not frozen for 4 years) according to new contract. But this is at companies discretion as well.
We have an equipment bid every 2 months if your number can hold mainline then you can go, or if your mainline you can bid Rouge if you wish. The only other "freeze" is bidding from Rouge to Mainline you can't bid back to Rouge for 2 years.
And yes if you get pushed to Rouge you have reinstatement rights back to your former position at mainline. And if you choose to use your reinstatement right you go back to your former equipment before anyone else.
Cheers
600RVR
