Originally Posted by
Turbosina
Since I'm not on property (yet), forgive my lack of understanding in terms of how vacancy bids correspond with class drops. I think this means that:
• At some point soon, this bid will close
• Whatever spots are not taken, will be offered to new hires
• So for example if on this bid, 95 pilots bid for CA upgrades in the bases and numbers listed, there would be 0 CA drops offered to new hires after this bid closes. (This would ignore the effect of any downgrades creating more CA slots, but I have to think that's minimal.)
• So the outcome of the vacancy bid can provide an educated guess about the composition of new-hire class drops over the next 30-ish days.
Izzat about right?
Unfilled vacancies are open to the company to use for new hire assignments for 92 days after the award is posted.
So, for the new bid 2408, that award will likely post on the 15th or the 18th. Any unfilled assignments would then be good for them to use in any class through the middle of June. 2407 was awarded on Feb 16th, so those unfilled assignments are good till May 18th. 2406 was awarded on Jan 16th, so those are good till April 17th . 2405 was awarded on Dec 21st, so those unfilled expire Mar 22nd.
The company gets to decide which of the unfilled assignments they offer to which class, so as long as they still have unfilled assignments from a vacancy bid less than 92 days ago they are free to use whichever ones they want in whichever order they have the greatest need.