I'm not sure about new hire classes. I just know that there are quite a few 145 ORD FOs that live in the DFW area that can't get back to DFW. Supposedly the company told them they will be able to, but aren't letting them go yet. I get it, if the company needs ORD FOs then why would they let them transfer? If they let them transfer, they will still be short ORD FOs. But if they don't let them transfer, they lose valuable pilots at a time when they can't afford to.

There are also a lot of CRJ pilots that live in the DFW area that can't get back until they can bid to a different airplane. For FOs, that means upgrade which could take forever.

The company could fix this, but for some reason they think the flow is the answer to everything and continue to treat pilots like @#$%.