Outstation / Secondary Base Promotions - how does/should it work?
Our airline is setting up its first outstation. The new base is in a more desirable city than the Main Hub. There are more volunteers than crews needed. But obviously not everybody wants to move.
Now how do you staff such a base? Seniority rules, so for now, the first 20 Captains and 20 F/O's in order of seniority get to go. But now how do you promote?
When a Captain position comes up at the new base, do you take the senior F/o at the base and promote him?
Do you first offer the job to existing Captains at the hub? And then replace that Captain with the F/o on top of the seniority list?
Do you offer the promotion to the next senior F/O in the company and if he doesnt want to move there, go down the list until you find someone who does want to go and then promote him and pay the others pass-over pay?
What to do?