Originally Posted by
Xray678
in the ATL 330A, there were no posted vacancies, three people bid out and they awarded six. There are other categories that has the same thing. I always thought they could not award more than posted and/or contingency vacancies. Obviously I’m wrong but have never noticed this before. But it does explain all the movement generated from a bid with only 14 wide body captains posted.
As crazyjawdawg pointed out, 6 people bid out (3 awarded AEs and 3 bypassed awards to the A350) so it was a net of zero and, therefore, technically they did not award more than was posted to include contingency vacancies.