Originally Posted by
sailingfun
To add to the above what they award will also be based on current training capacity available for each fleet. It’s in their best interest to a certain extent to try and award you something you will stay on for a longer period of time. It’s rather easy to manipulate a training freeze that effectively is only 9 months after training completion. Depending on capacity they have some flexibility in the awards.
It’s actually pretty smart of the company and a small potential QOL win for new hires (although they’ll never know the drop was tweaked to benefit them).