Originally Posted by Longhornmaniac8

Widebodies haven't been offered to new hires in 2 years.

The junior FO widebody award on the current widebody vacancy is a late 2022 hire. It's gone really senior since things slowed to a trickle here for about a year. Both widebody FO vacancies and narrowbody CA vacancies have gone very senior lately, however conventional wisdom is that things will be moving again starting probably as soon as November when we're told to expect a large NBCA vacancy. With continued aircraft deliveries coming on a more consistent and predictable schedule, I expect things will rather quickly get back to what it looked like in 2022-23. I'm not predicting new hire CAs, but I think we will have enough WBFO vacancies and NBCA vacancies in the next 6-12 months that anyone who has been on property for more than a year would be able to hold either.

I think a lot of people held off on the NBCAs the last time around thinking things would continue as they had and they may be a little more willing to take it while it's available this time, which would keep it out of the new hire classes.

Standard caveat that I'm just a guy with a (probably incorrect) opinion.