Originally Posted by
Baradium
No. It's not that the 330 isn't in ATL, it's that you can't HOLD it in ATL.
Here's a good example. You are awarded ATL 7ER, you live in Seattle. Since ER is supposedly closing there you are unlikely to get it on an AE, however, after a year, even if the 7ER is still in Seattle, you can bid to a different aircraft to get Seattle as long as you couldn't hold 7ER on that AE.
It's not that the aircraft isn't in the base you want, it's that you can't get to the base you want on your aircraft.
And just to clarify in case any newbies are reading this, there are clarifications about this on the AE postings. In the example above you would have to bid SEA 7ER without any restrictions and then bid the other SEA aircraft in order to get them.