Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
That appears to be the case. I remembered him parroting a similar line a number of times.
From the April Memo:
Going forward, we envision posting smaller but more frequent bids. Future bids will primarily contain vacancies
to add staffing for additional mainline aircraft deliveries, including the 717 and 739, as well as backfilling
openings created by pilot attrition. The March 2013 bid should be our final clean-up before entering into the
more frequent bid phase.
I guess 107 vacancies and 100 displacements counts as primarily vacancies?
I think your going to find that with the long planned retirements on the 757 there will be displacements off that aircraft on most bids. The key is the gain of 77 more Captains slots. This puts us over 275 new Captains in the last 12 months. As long as they are adding Captains then hiring has to follow as the surplus of FO's moves to CA slots.