Originally Posted by
Turbosina
Keep in mind the DVR is often highly inaccurate because it doesn't and can't predict pilots retiring or transferring to different bases. So you might see zero vacancies in Base A and 10 vacancies in Base B, but if 10 guys from Base A want to transfer to B, the reality will be exactly opposite to what the DVR shows...
Perfect example here. I was sitting comfortably in DTW for a while, only had PHX on my bid. At the end of November, it had...either 1 or 0 on the DVR for FOs, and had only been letting a couple in per month, if that. Then early December, I get the email that my PHX bid was approved for January. I was one of 10 first officers that got transferred in. Of course this is an outlier, because only a couple got in for February. But yeah, the DVR is not really reliable. I guess if you see a huge number, then you can hedge your bets (like over the summer when places like DEN had 20+ on the DVR), otherwise it's not really a good indicator of anything.