MOP just phrased his post poorly. As has been clarified, the 777 and 787 haven't gone junior enough (no unfilled bids) for a new hire to get one of those aircraft.

As per our contract, in order for a newhire to get a BES, there has to be an unfilled vacancy. I'm not going to look back on each bid, but the bulk of unfilled bids have been 737 and A320, with some 756 vacancies that have gone unfilled.

Yes, LCAL had some 777 vacancies for newhires but LUAL has, to my knowledge, never had a newhire go to the 777. At least in the last 16 years.

So they need to do pretend students for those fleets (777 and 787), as a minimum.

I won't be one of the pilots who will take advantage of this opportunity, but I'm glad that some junior reserve pukes will be able to get 90 hours just for playing student. And I'm glad that they're spooling up the number of PIs at TK - hopefully to get ready for a lot of training requirements.