Originally Posted by
PNWProdigal
We gave out 88s to New Hires in the last 3 classes before the MOAB and it still had over 100 displacements. They’ll need bodies on it as long as people keep flowing to other aircraft faster then they are retiring them. Right now from the available data, the 88 is either being retired faster then when the Jun 2019 requirement was made or they’ll have to put new hires into the 88. Unless there’s another way to square being about 40 bodies short?
There were zero unbid vacancies on it after the July AE or the last AE, so new hires cannot be assigned to the 88 until an AE leaves positions unbid.
As an aside, we recently had a new hire from the last new hire class in June in the jumpseat. She was assigned MD in ATL, but then promptly got displaced to A220 in New York on the MOAB. Ready for 30,000 opinions from 14,000 pilots? Explain why some are hanging onto the 88, and if it will change enough to create new hire vacancies before it retires. Discuss amongs yourselves.