Originally Posted by GoCats67

That certainly has been the trend. They have added a second class to each of the last several months and have now done so for Nov and Dec as well.

In the communications from Manpower Planning, they have said on multiple occasions that they are attempting to fill every training slot that the Training Center can handle as we go forward. So, each vacancy bid is both targeting the long term plan of the summer of 2019 staffing needs as well as the short term plan of what training slots do they have available. The current bid was reported as smaller as it is intended to fill the remaining open training slots in January. In the same communication it said to expect another vacancy bid in December that would be larger and that they hoped to be able to communicate the summer of 2019 international allocation chart. This is just a list of what aircraft will be flying what routes for the summer of 2019 out of all the hubs, but is more important this time as we will receive 9 787-10s before then and they will (apparently) make up a good portion (or maybe all) of the flying out of the new 787 domicile in EWR. Whatever they use those new aircraft on it will certainly have a ripple effect across EWR intl and potentially elsewhere. Hopefully it will also be timed with some new route announcements!!!

Either way, I would be surprised if we don't continue with at least 2 new hire classes a month. The trend has been to wait until somewhat close in to announce the second class, but I don't think that matters much to the process of actually offering a class to a new hire, as we still have pilots on furlough-bypass for another 10 or so months that have up until 30 days prior to the class to notify UA of their intention to return, so no new-hire will get the offer of a class until 30 days out anyway.