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.
Pretty much Walli. Current DAL Pilots can bid on the openings and whatever slots remain unbid will be filled by new hires. Secondary vacancies also get created during these AE's so it's likely that there will be additional positions available to new hires that aren't shown on the posted AE. For example, there are no MSP 320B openings on the AE but lets say that a few MSP 320B's get awarded new positions and no current pilots bid into those vacated slots. Then new hires will get MSP 320B even though they weren't advertised as open on the AE.