Originally Posted by Andrew_VT

...but there are SO many people that got bypassed to get to that August 2007 hire.

Considering the speed in which things are moving everyone is is probably thinking that they'll stay a FO for a few more months now so that they can make the ~$13k more a year as a CRJ CA rather than a SF3 CA for the 2 year seat lock.

I was in a July class and we were warned by our instructor not to put anything ahead of ourselves on the preference bid that we absolutely didn't want...because we just might get it before we know it!