I think this could be misleading on their part.

ORD had 108 CA displacements in the last canceled displacement bid. And they said today they expect it to be similar, so 108. But does that account for ORD pilots leaving for vacancy openings in other bases? IF 20 ORD CAs leave ORD for openings in the vacancy bids before the Feb1 effective date for the displacement, say IAH ATL or somewhere else, is that 20 going to lower the 108 displacements? OR are they running their "trial" bids for "us" in order to see how many willing participants are looking to leave base via vacancy, and then have the displacement with the same number as before.

Because if they see 20 ORD CAs are wanting to leave for voluntary vacancies on these practice bids, and they say "we plan on displacing the same," thats still possibly 128 pilots getting hacked off the ORD list. They made no mention that pilots leaving for vacancy bids will effect displacements, just attrition. Its not a mystery why they are running these 3 practice bids, it isnt for our benefit, its to get us to update our voluntary and involuntary displacement tabs, along with the vacancy tabs for the new base. They are basically backdooring us into showing where we want to go, and they adjust the numbers to what they need on that.

Super long winded, I know. But I dont think the displacement numbers will be as simple as similar to what we saw before and the after effects on those 3 bases.