KADS: There really are no "conditions." The current situation is that there are NO applicants for FC positions in TOS. The FO with the longest seniority at TOS has only about 2000 hrs, and there really aren't many FOs in SAS Commuter who have the required 3000 hrs to become an FC. And they will all go to SAS by the time they have.
What SAS Commuter wanted to do, was to offer an FC course straight away for applicants who have more than 3000 hrs. (And preferably a certain amount of FC experience.) They would still have to start on year one on the seniority list. And they would also still have to go through the regular SAS recruiting process.
This was stopped by the unions. Or rather: stopped by the agreements that SAS/SAS Commuter have already made with the unions (Kollektivavtalene).
Since seniority is not limiting, the only difference is that a new applicant has to go through the "regular" FO course, and then, more or less, go straight on to an FC course.
When it comes to time limited contracts (Lima November), SAS (and most SAS applicants, I believe) have always wanted stable, "life long" employments. It hasn't been considered wise to go to an SAS interview saying that you only want to work for SAS for a limited peroiod of time.
If an applicant pass the SAS tests, and starts as an FC in TOS (after being FO for a couple of months), he will be on the combined SAS/SAS Commuter seniority list with all the rights an privileges that all the other pilots in the system have.
The only "special treatment" SAS could offer (considering the situation in TOS) for a Captain who wants to fly a F50 out of TOS for a limited period, is to give him a job despite the fact that they know he will quit in a year or two. If they don't offer that deal, why say that you want a time limited contract?
In other words: Only thing he has to do is to say that he'd like an FC position in TOS and work for the rest of his life for SAS. If he doesn't want to continue his employment, after a year or two, all he needs to do is quit.
Nick.
[ 06 August 2001: Message edited by: Nick Figaretto ]