Originally Posted by sulkair

If you look at the Mock Bid - it is clear KDEN will absolutely be available to new hires.

I count 91 current FOs leaving Denver whether to upgrade out or just transfer out as FO.

The mock bid only shows a net reduction of 46 FO's for Denver by end of year.

This necessitates a backfill of 45 newhire FO's 91-46=45 (well ok, I see 2 non-newhire's bidding DEN FO, so 43 newhires will come into Denver as backfill between now and end of 2015

Granted it's a Mock bid. But assuming it's even only 50% correct, that still requires newhire back fill into Denver which will continue until every FO that has any inclination to upgrade has already done so out of Denver and the only ones left are the senior mamas. That will be a while.

I strongly believe all bases will be available to newhire FO's within a bid period or two for the foreseeable future. Where you hold CA however is an entirely different story. (as we all know)