As Penske points out these ftr slots were available to all, and in any case should have been finished and done with a long time ago. Instead the successful applicants have been penalized by well over a year's wait due to DECs. If the rules change in the meanwhile it should be for future cmd allocations, not past ones!
That said, I fully agree that if actual scheduled AND assigned pax courses have been cancelled as opposed to delayed (PCAs don't count guys, the officers waiting for those frt slots applied, PCAd and have been categorized since early last year
), then I agree there is an issue.
Even then, the question should be, "since the frt guys are having their courses honoured, we want the pax ones honoured as well" as opposed to "if you're going to cancel the pax ones then we want to take the ones previously assigned to other officers instead"!
LostinAirspace's suggestion of alternating courses would seem more fair, even if it would further delay the frt guys.
IMHO!