FlyingBoxes is correct. When I made my statement, I was going by your statement that there were vacancies in the 75CM seat without checking for myself. That is my fault.

The clarification is in Section 24. You get a seat based on seniority if the dynamic staffing level is less than the minimum staffing level. That is a vacancy. The actual number of people in the seat is less than the required amount. The only seats that meet that requirement are the 77FM and 75FM. The rest of the seats are seats being made available for excess. The dynamic staffing level starts at the current staffing level listed in the bid, and then changes as the bid starts to fill out. In previous vacancy bids, the minimum and maximum staffing levels were the same, just like the 77FM on this bid. The company could have made the minimum and maximum levels in the other seats the same if they wanted. If they had decided to move the maximum level down to meet the minimum level, then there would have been a lot more pilots sent to the 75FM seat. If they had moved the minimum number up to the maximum, then everyone would have been able to bid as a vacancy, including those in the closed bases. Hope this makes it a little more clear.