On the bid that closed last month there were 5 awards to GUM 737 F/O. The junior one awarded was about 9800 on the seniority list. On the bid that closed last weekend (no results out yet) there were not any advertised vacancies in GUM, so any awards would only be to backfill for somebody else leaving.

So, in the short term the only way to get to GUM for a new hire would be to get a 737 F/O assignment somewhere else out of new hire and then hope for a lateral. I am not sure how much demand there is waiting for the GUM bids, but you figure that pilot 9800 has not quite 3000 pilots junior to him, so how ever many of those 3000 want to go to GUM would be ahead of you.

Even getting a 737 F/O slot as a new hire may become a challenge as the training in that fleet is shifted to accommodate more Captains and we will likely have a huge amount of 67 F/O vacancies going to new hires.

In the longer term, I think that GUM has historically gone fairly junior (legacy CAL folks can speak better to that) so, I think as all the movement settles and the legacy UA guys that are interested in going to GUM get their bids and the legacy CAL gusy interested in getting away from GUM get their bids, you will see GUM become a little easier to get to.