Originally Posted by
TonyC
OK, the Regulated Age changed on December 13, 2007.
All of the Vacancy and Excess Postings prior to that are no longer on the pilot.fedex.com website. I have them archived, but I'll have to look later to see if there was a Posting which was issued before the 13th and cancelled after.
Posting 08-01 Jan 02, 2008 -- 149 Vacancies, 37 Excesses (all SFS)
Posting 08-02 Apr 15, 2008 -- 95 Vacancies (HKG FO and B-757), 377 Excesses (B-727 and DC-10, all seats)
Posting 08-03 - Cancelled
If memory serves, the Posting prior to the age change you're thinking of closed -- wasn't cancelled -- but many of the individual bid awards were cancelled.
If you're saying that the shuffling of senior pilots over 60 was more orderly with the Vacancy Posting than with the Excess Postings, I agree.
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Yep, I looked at the same info. If memory serves, it was 08-01 that they bid the window seat so they didn't get to play in the 08-02 excess. Which by a stroke of luck worked to our favor since many could have been wide body captains. But a lot don't know that.