Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
MOAB! (Mother of All Bids)... It appears that it is going to be a very big bid that will probably encompass most fleets and bases. Now that was last weeks plan, so it can change this week
...The exact details are not widely known, so we will let them leak out accordingly.... Looks like a early to mid December AE for everyone. SOC will be announced before the end of the year.
First of all,
can there actually be a bid across pre-merger lines before SOC? I assume the answer is "probably yes", but it seems to me that it would be strange to have awards without SOC in hand.
Second, I thought the philosophy was rumored to be "small AE's, lots of deadheading" initially, until they get fleets where they want them, etc. Is this MOAB a change of plans? Or does it rely on some new concession, or some new LOA, to change the bid/award/conversion process?
I didn't think the company wanted to, or could, let loose a very big bid, because I didn't think they would like the results. Conversely, I thought they couldn't easily have displacements, without getting substantial "cascades" throughout the system. Now, ACL makes it sounds is if they're (in effect) going to just re-bid the system by opening everything up.
If anyone has any background on this apparent change of plans, I'd love to hear it.