Thread: Vacancy bid?
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Old 05-31-2016 | 09:27 PM
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Andy
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Originally Posted by Sniper66
Are you expecting to see open FOs slots on the 777 at ORD in the next upcoming bid next week or so
If I were to guess, yes I do expect to see ORD 777 FO vacancies. But I have zero insight into future staffing plans.

I'm just going off of what's written in the mid-May Crew Resources Update and the planned delivery schedule. The Crew Resources Update indicates the greatest staffing demands will be in SFO and ORD.

Since they're delivering ~2 777s per month starting in December, I'd expect training to temporarily overstaff the 777 so that there are adequate crews to fly all of the new metal. I don't know how fast new crews can be trained but staffing 2 new aircraft a month sounds like a bit more than they can handle in the training pipeline.
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