I can only speak from personal experience, because I don't have the actual data that APA or the company has, but I've been here for 1.8 months, and have had a CLT 320 FO vacancy bid in for the last ~6 months; with no award. APA says "the only new-hire pilot positions being offered to them are because all pilot preferences and awards received their award". Now, I could be very wrong here, and I don't know the exact new hire class awards for the last 6 months, but I have a hard time believe there have been 0 CLT 320 FO offers in the last 6 months of new hire classes.

But my question too is, being that we only do quarterly vacancies, if every QAL pilot got their preference and/or award, and we are running classes every 2 weeks and vacancies every 3 months, isn't that a lot more vacancies to fill than spots not being offered to QAL pilots; because of the quarterly bid? For example, so the December bid is closed. New hires for Jan, Feb and March only get offered what QAL pilots don't want, right? But if we are running classes every 2 weeks, isn't that a lot more spots to fill than what remained from the vacancy bid, but we just don't get the chance to bid? I'm missing something, I guess.