They already announced in one of the flight ops updates to expect another bid at the start of the first quarter. I don't think they upgraded the ammount you would have expected with the last bid because they didn't have enough first officers to backfill. We really haven't run many new hire classes in a long time so all these new guys coming online will start the cycles again, once we get more Fo's online they will continue to upgrade and likely hire. My guess is that hiring may slow down for the summer but as Delta starts to hire and UAL goes to full scale hiring this fall we will be hiring on both sides.

337 new hires is not possible in that time frame. I think there might be 337 training cycles for 200-700 transitions. That would make sense given the ammount of movement in the last bid. either way people, the training dept is busy and thats a good thing. People hired today will have a very short upgrade (2-3 years)... For anyone from 1400-1050 we are looking at 7+ years.... anyways just my .02