Its a monthly vacancy bid. Nobody ever said this was the last bid for a year. They even said in previous crew resources updates that WBCA would have continuing bids and expect another large bid in December. We are taking delivery of 128 planes in 2026, plus the planes that are being delivered between now and the end of 2025 and we have 450 retirements to cover.

Also in the July CRU they said that they expect to have NBCA to not be completed until March for the summer of 2026. We will need more even after March to staff new planes and prepare for fall and winter 2026. So we clearly have more bids coming. I don't know where the "this is the last bid until Summer 2026" came from. This week's new hire class was 77 pilots.

Everyone needs to chill out and not to try translate the Crew Resources Update into some bad news. 800+ pilots in a single bid is pretty large, considering we had a bid in September and will likely have them for the next few months as well. Also the Crew Update said this bid "prepares" the pipeline from Summer demand, not that this is it until the summer. Not sure how we can take all those planes, backfill retirements and WBCA and only have 200 CA bids between now and the summer.