Originally Posted by
khergan
Gents,
Anyone know why the company is shrinking the DCA 737FO category?
In earlier vacancy bids, we had a max of 280 in the category. We now have 265. Although this is just one BES slot, are there any other bases/slots where this is happening?
Don't get tunnel vision on FO slots. Looking at CA slots is more instructive, DCA 737 CA holding steady at 301 this bid (vs 283 at the start of the last bid). Filling CA slots is tough right now, but the CO can easily send new hires to DCA 737 FO out of indoc. And yeah, similar things are happening at some other bases such a SFO - trying to grow to 250 737 CAs this bid. And yet, there are only 117 SFO 737 FOs to start this bid and no SFO 737 FO vacancies. That imbalance is clearly going to be filled with new hires.