Originally Posted by Roberto

It is kinda early to be talking about the next vacancy bid, but there should be one early summer, probably with just ANC 747's. Let's say another 20 captains and 30 FO's.

The new ANC FO's will all be bidding for captain, so except for a couple senior people elsewhere, those 20 ANC captains will mostly come from upgrading ANC FO's.

There are not too many over-60 guys left who did not have the opportunity to go to ANC FO this time, so I don't expect but a few of those to jump on an ANC FO spot in the next bid. That will open up those seats to others.

I didn't take ANC FO this time, so I won't need Freightpups cookie recipe. I'm expecting it will be 12-18 months before a bid comes out where I can hold a lower-48 FO, bidding in the low 900's. That's more than enough time for Freightpup to make some more pups <g>.