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"Unfilled" command spots on bases don't go empty (and nor as you're intimating, potentially up for grabs by a DEC) with regard to the whole system, they are taken up by a commander in HKG. Required additional command positions are filled from the hub, and are not required to be filled directly at the spoke.
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Gaining a command on a base requires normal command seniority as well as gaining that command spot through an open PBPA base bid.
Sure, a B747 command might go more junior than the normal command seniority due to the undesirability of the roster, but they are required to be offered in seniority order amongst all officers on the seniority list. We need to get away from the separate freighter fleet mentality and stop the rot!
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Gaining a command on a base requires normal command seniority as well as gaining that command spot through an open PBPA base bid.
Sure, a B747 command might go more junior than the normal command seniority due to the undesirability of the roster, but they are required to be offered in seniority order amongst all officers on the seniority list. We need to get away from the separate freighter fleet mentality and stop the rot!
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Unless your ex ASL or a freighter captain apparently. Then seniority.
In the same way Airbus commands were recently going fairly junior, and for much the same reasons. As long as commands are offered in seniority order and people retain the ability to turn them down and wait for something they prefer, this is only natural, the command will be offered to the next guy/gal in line.
I agree with Arfur, in my view there is nothing wrong with an F/O declining to come to HKG for a command, waiting for sufficient seniority to hold command on his base, and then bidding for command directly on that base. No-one disadvantaged. As many have pointed out, most US carriers (not to mention BA!), operate with this logic.
Also consider that if said F/O does accept to come to HKG and then fails command, he/she has now lost the base slot and must remain in HKG...