Per our contract, Mgt cannot put New hires directly into a Seat unless that seat has Vacancies. Actually they can, but it would cost them Passover Pay.

As of the last several Bids, there are vacancies in the FO seat in HKG, ANC and CGN. If they want to put new Hires into the Wide FO seat in MEM they either have to accept large amounts of Passover pay that would most likely generate,
or Post another Bid with vacancies and let the chips fall where they may.

After a bid closes, if there are still vacancies, the Company can fill any of those vacancies with new hires if they choose (Capt seats too), without incurring Passover obligation.