Originally Posted by
iaflyer
My guess is that this is setting up for the coming hiring. The company has to be be able to say they offered the slots to existing pilots before they give them to new hires or Furlough Bypass.
That is the right answer.
Technically, they don't "have to" offer these slots to existing pilots but they want to do it to avoid training some guys twice. There might only be 10 or 20 pilots who bid for those 65 DTW 717B slots but they need to identify those guys before they fill the slots with bypass pilots and then have to send them back to school when they bid out.