Nope. I’m saying you are looking at a year gone by where people senior to you have been locked in place awaiting a vacancy/upgrade bid and not being able to make the changes they want to make - especially the last few classes that they did get through.

Everybody senior to you is going to have to get to their base of preference before the new guys/gals. That’s the way it has always been. It’s just been a lot longer than usual since anyone could move so the pent up demand may make it entirely possible you won’t get your base of preference for a few months.

And compared to other airlines, that’s not bad at all. At some of them a newbie might wind up seat-locked into an airframe that doesn’t service the city he/she lives in even if the airline does have a base there.

Seniority is a two edged sword and everything is a trade off. The work rule that lets NK line holders drop lines easily is great IMHO, but the downside is that the junior people are going to sit reserve longer in order to give senior people that option.

Now none of that means you CAN’T get your base of choice out of training - and likely most of the later classes after the first ones complete durning the Spring likely will. But there are no guarantees that happens. And before it does, a few people who have been sitting reserve in a base that wasn’t their first choice for over a year that are senior to the newbies are going to get their chance to move to their base of preference first.