However if you ask some 243 vacancies does not mean 243 new hires. Yet to find anyone who can explain this logic but quite a few saying this bid will result in only 40-100 actual new hires and the rest is just moving people around

Mystery to me on that calculation...any theories on how Many actual new hires?

Either way it's interesting theyve gone darn near all the way through the UAL list to finish the last bid. Interesting times.