Originally Posted by
FL370esq
Here is the "fun" part of that screen....
Let's say the company posted 25 vacancies for MSP717A and, you look in iCrew on the AE screen and see there are only 24 pilots total that are senior to you with an AE bid for MSP717A. In theory, despite it looking like a certainty, you may not get the award if the company only decided to fill 20 of the 25 vacancies due to excessive training churn. However, as SF said, many of those senior to you probably have some type of qualifier associated with their bid that won't be honored as the AE process churns through so, the numbers you see senior to you are, most likely, an inflated snapshot. As always, bid what you want and want what you bid because you just might get it. But, along the same lines, don't avoid bidding something you want just because there are 180 pilots senior to you with bids in. You would be amazed how quickly many of those 180 are bypassed on an AE run due to qualifiers.
In addition this bid will produce a large number of secondary bids. A category with 25 posted positions could see 45 awarded positions. It’s also not as simple as the company deciding not to award bids because of training churn. If they choose to do that with current staffing levels they would need to reduce the planned summer block hours in that category. That’s not likely with the Max now dead until fall.