Originally Posted by
FlyingSlowly
Yes. But Also, we've taken delivery of 4 789s this year without any real FO vacancies to go with... so the overstaffing is thinning, but not gone?
The FO backfills are minimal and, of course, only in certain bases. Also they are going far senior to the junior pilots on the fleet, of course. Might be a little while until we see new hires offered it again...
Only 3 of the 7 787 FO bases are overstaffed according to the MIX/MAX and last vacancy bid. The other 4 are staffed at the MIN which is why they backfilled. And the overstaffing isn't substantial. Of the 1,340 FOs prior to the bid the required staffing was 1,290. So overstaffed by a whopping 3.8% before the bid closed. Also we had 30 FOs bid OUT of their seats, so now overstaffed by 20 which is 1.5%.
I bet we have vacancies on the very next bid for 787 FOs.