Originally Posted by
Probe
The company could care less where new hires go. They just have to have the right number of bodies in each place. This vacancy bid is mostly feedstock for new hires, but the company has to issue them as vacancy bids so that pilots already here can bid on them, which they just did.
This is just the normal process for vacancy bids.
The company DOES care where Displaced pilots bid, but they can't do anything about it, other than issue more displacements from the affected categories that got overstaffed as a result of the diplacement.
read the bid announcement. They specifically say this is bid will allow the company to put new hires in multiple bases throughout the system instead of pushing them all into EWR and SFO.