Originally Posted by
Dave Fitzgerald
Maybe. Remember the MIN-Max sheet is kind of pie in the sky anyway. Essentially meaningless. Manpower can make those numbers say anything they want, then adjust the trickle downs in any fashion they choose.
My guess is they are fat in at least a couple of domiciles, so they will temper the trickle downs to thin the ranks for fall and winter flying.
That is incorrect.
Once it is published it is controlling. So, in this case, the following seats that don't have advertised vacancies do have matching min and max:
EWR 777 CAP
DCA 737 CAP
IAH 737 CAP
DEN 737 CAP
IAH 787 CAP
DCA 737 FO
EWR 737 FO
CLE 737 FO
ORD 737 FO
IAH 737 FO
DEN 737 FO
IAH 787 FO
So, anybody who takes a bid out of one of those seats creates a required backfill vacancy into the seat they left. Additionally, LAX 777 FO only has a difference of 1 between min and max, so if more than one LAX 777 FO takes a bid, then the 2nd and beyond must be backfilled.
Long story short, the only way there wont be unfilled vacancies on this bid is if a whole bunch of 320 and 756 FOs take all the 737 FO bids.