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Ok. As a North guy, and someone who is still trying to figure things out....
.....how does a 365 day conversion AE work? I mean, does that mean there will be no more AE's out until next summer? Or, if another AE comes out in March, when do the people who got awarded something get trained?
Basically, I'm totally confused because:
1.) The company says by next November basically all the DC-9's will be parked. But, this 365 day conversion AE doesn't park all the DC-9's by November 1st. &
2.) The company says that by next December we will have 20 more MD90's. But, this 365 day AE only increases the amount of MD88 A's by 25 and 32 MD88 B's.
If I think about it any more, I'll just confuse myself more.
Did I just confuse anyone else?
The 365 just concerns when the conversions have to be done for this bid alone. They expect a lot of training on this bid so they used their contractual right to spread it out over 365 days. They can post another bid a month (or a week) from now and another a month (or a day or a week) after that. There will be more bids for MD-90's but that will come later. This is a little more random from the pilot's view than the APA system, but this is how Delta has done it and they know that system. Eventually they may change but this is the south and they don't change quickly.
Each new AE will adjust for the changes/shortcomings from the last AE. The next AE will most likely have more MD-88/90 openings and more DC-9 displacements. They will also adjust to the changing market conditions that affects how Hauenstein deploys our aircraft to make money (we like making money).
The bottom line is that there can and most likely will be overlapping AE's with multiple training/conversion windows. You have gotten the big picture. More MD-90's, phase out of DC-9's. Shape your bidding strategy around that.