Originally Posted by
YellowBusMarine
Thanks. I hadn’t thought about the training side of it. But kind of sucks that you get one shot to bid and if something changes in your life, you’re stuck for quite a bit. Seems they could do more frequent bids since there are seat locks for transitions and such.
It absolutely sucks. Every guy I've talked to at other airlines about our once a year bid process looks at me sideways and doesn't understand how we can allow that. At my old place it was monthly. When I started here it was quarterly, which I could live with. Once a year though? Even if I'm not planning on movement, there are people who have things change after bids close in August, and it's ridiculous that you're now stuck with your choices for a full year. People can say that supplemental bids will come out, but there is zero guarantee of that.