Originally Posted by
HTBH
Is it ... a contract thing ...? Why not just give the ATL 320's out directly?
It's a contract thing. You can't put a new-hire into a position, any position, until you've offered that position in an AE and it remains unfilled. Whenever they offer ATL 320 B positions, the NYC 320 B pilots pick them up, leaving unfilled NYC 320 B positions. That is then the only 320 B category into which they can put the new-hires.
It's no skin off the Company's nose to let a pilot transfer from NYC to ATL and put a new-hire into NYC instead of ATL.