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M600 Instructor
For someone who interviews as an Aviate candidate right now, that is how it works. When the program first came out, there was too large a group of people to do it that way because they had shut off the CPP, added Mesa and Air Wisconsin to the program and had a huge back-up of people to interview. So to try to make it fair, they created two interview "waves" for the FIFO list.
Anyone who interviewed in the first "wave" (which was some date in December 2019 - can't remember the exact date) should have been arranged on the FIFO list by seniority within their own company. In all fairness to UAL, they never said how they were going to blend Mesa, Air Wisconsin, CommutAir, and ExpressJet people - this has always been one of my biggest complaints and they have been extremely "secretive" about the list. I would have hoped that it would be balanced, but who knows.
I think I see part of the problem. Dec. 2019 was not the first wave. The CPP went back to 2014 or 2015ish if I remember correctly. If you were the Dec 2019 wave, then there should be a large group ahead of you. There were different levels in the CPP itself at one point. This is all posted off of memory and I would have to go back and find the details somewhere.
The CPP was also rolled into the Decile thing when Aviate came around and muddied the water as well since it turned into a FIFO list. Prior to FIFO list, it was supposed to be a certain percentage from each airline in each class. I think it was 25% for XJT and 10% for C5 at the time for CPP. When the Aviate thing started, the percentage went away and kept as a UA secret now how many go in each class.
What Decile were you in when they last sent out an email a few months ago? I know of Decile 2 getting class dates now.
Also, have you contacted your coach?