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Old 12-23-2025 | 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by CaptTX
It is very unlikely they will displace pilots in order to staff AUS, there are a TON of pilots that live around the area and are bidding it as their #1 choice.
It's not AUS I'm worried about...it's the bases that will have cuts to feed it. If the vacancy bid has HOU at -30, and 50 leave HOU...then they have to staff HOU by 20. I'm sure there's plenty in BWI/MCO who were displaced and want back west...so 20 get into HOU. Now BWI is short 20....nobody wants BWI because anyone who wanted it could have had it over the last year, so now you displace 20 more to BWI....from OAK or wherever. That's just HOU....now what happens when you have a base like DEN that already has been cut 20% and you decide to cut it more to staff AUS with block hours.... We had a vacancy of just 14 just close and there was a ton of movement so it's not as binary as my example but you get the gist. DRR doesn't count for secondary vacancies so guys booted from DAL/HOU won't get back in with priority on a secondary, but very well may be senior enough to hold it outside DRR, so it's a mess. The first couple projections should be pretty telling how it'll go but that's another month away and planning has been awfully quiet about future plans for the Western bases. Happy for those in TX who can now drive to work, but as someone who's lost 15% seniority in base and is only 6% away from a forced commute....it's unsettling.
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