Originally Posted by
Turbosina
Like most people, I'm just trying to figure out my chances of transferring into another base, and/or upgrading into that base. I guess the tricky thing with the snapshot is that it has no way of predicting how many people will successfully bid into a new BES, thereby freeing up their spot for someone else who wants it. So for example, in this current bid, there are no NBCA vacancies listed...there are only WBCA vacancies. However, it stands to reason that at least some of those WBCA spots will go to NBCAs who bid it, thereby freeing up NBCA slots and allowing people (who aren't currently NBCAs) to hold those slots. But there's no way to know that until the bid closes.
The other thing that confuses the heck out of me is, the bid notice indicates that there are a lot of NBCA slots being freed up because they were initially awarded to new hires who decided not to keep their CA awards. Yet if you look at the snapshots, the number of NBCA slots listed is far fewer than the number of slots mentioned as being available. Totally puzzled...
those spots are not freed up they are available. The pilots you see listed are bidding for the available slots. if it says 10 avail and 5 are posted then only 5 pilots have a valid bid in. Therefore there are still 5 pilots who don’t want there CA bid still in the position. Those CAs have elected to forego there slot IF there are any takers they weren’t “let out” from the position.
i didn’t explain that super well…..but I hope you get the idea.
the filling of unwanted new hire CA positions is outside the min/max bulletin.