Originally Posted by FriendlyPilot

This has been explained on NUMEROUS town halls by crew resources. The MIN/MAX is how they control training. Nothing else. Its not long term staffing. If they don't want to create narrowbody or other training cycles in the summer, they don't allow backfills, then in a few months they will post a bunch of bids to fill fall training slots. The fact that they didn't backfill is a result of limiting training and nothing else.

This bid was mostly just to fill 787 CA slots, as was mentioned in a previous Crew Resources Update. Obviously this could have created a lot of Captain upgrades in 756 737 and Airbus so they just artificially lower the min so there are no backfills.

If you look at the MIN vs total current staffing we appear to be overstaffed by 200 Captains. We are not.

As has been famously said in the past "I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you"