So I am one of the people who is going over the ATL side of 9E. I was awarded the vacancy before we "lost" the contract with Delta and was very happy when we "reacquired" it. That being said, I will address the rumor. I have no inside source, nor have I heard any rumors, this is just my opinion.

The 08-06 vacancy was put out with the idea that we would need more pilots to staff the increase in planes out of ATL. This increase in planes will not happen until January, but they are still moving a few of us down in October. They are also moving people in Sept, and a place in that class was offered to me this past Friday if I wanted to move early. I was offered this while calling to get out of my October move though, so I didn't accept. I was, however, told that I would be needed in October and that there was no way out of the move.

As I understand it, people are not getting much flying in ATL right now. Reserves are seeing 15-20 hours a month (please correct me if I am wrong). With people flying that little, it doesn't make any sense to me that the company would be increasing staffing without seeing an increase in flying. We are moving 10 FO's in December and another 16 in January. The math just doesn't seem to add up IMO.

Are we getting more flying? I have no idea. It just doesn't seem to me that the company would move that many pilots to a base and have us all fly under guarantee for a higher hourly wage. Then again, not a whole lot about airline management makes sense to me. It just seems like they know something we all don't.

But there I go thinking again We all know how that ends up.