Direct from the lips of our HR lady today.."no new hires to HKG until the base is mainly stood up". Basically they were planning on training guys off the street and holding the current ones there to keep staffing up on the Bus during the transition.

Someone then realized that the new hires wouldn't be able to get consolidated, and would be sitting around not flying waiting for the base to open. Guy who are now in training and will activating prior to the June start date can expect to have lines with DH from to HKG to MEM or CGN to fly and get consolidation to solve the green on green that the FAA wont give us a waiver for.

They could have done that with a new guy, but decided that bouncing a new guy around the world to 3 different bases on a new airplane may not be the smartest thing.

That's why the new hire classes were canceled and the training letter was "adjusted".