Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
Might as well been forever. The new hires that filled the positions were obviously younger than the Republic pilots so when fence dropped in 2006, there no open positions to bid. Republic pilots were chasing displacements to they could displace into 747 captain.
When the fence came down the top 30% in the widebody categories were mostly already republic pilots. They could bid in on new equipment. Since in general Republic pilots were hired at younger ages they went to the top of a category when they were able to jump the fence.