Originally Posted by
Walli62
Q for you guys who are smart on how this stuff works - the AE is put out for bids, and whatever is not filled that way results in a drop for new hire classes? Looks like a lot of seats needing to be filled, and wondering how much of that will be internal and how much of that might accelerate the new hire training pace. Apologies - a lot of this is still Mandarin Chinese to me. It just seems like this last AE generated a bit of excitement.
Every position must be offered via the AE process before a new hire can be offered that seat. AE bids often overlap so it can be hard to know exactly what seats are available but in general what you say is correct. With a new hire however the company does not have to give them a choice of all unbidden seats. They can and will offer the seats they want filled relative to the capacity of the various training pipelines. They may have open seats on multiple aircraft types but if they need bodies in the MD88 pipeline that week the drop could be all 88's.