It's a little more complex than that. Your freeze date is actually based on the effective date of the vacancy you get your seat from, so right now new hires are locked into their seats until July 2027, meaning by the time their freeze is up, a bid comes out, they're awarded a new seat, and they finally train in it, there is a good chance they spend closer to 3 years locked in.

It's a big bone of contention that for a lot of 717 FOs that after being on property for over two years, they can be earning $30 an hour less than someone hired a year after them, but their lock still isn't expired. Nobody properly explains how our "training freeze" actually works to new hires, they just tell them 2 year freeze, which is not correct.