Originally Posted by acl65pilot

Simply put they need to bodies on the narrow body jets for the summer and as we grow there will be opportunity for pilots that have been bumped to go back to their seats. Not everyone everywhere, but a great many.

ATL is the hardest hit and there will be seats coming in in the next few bids. This will allow those that want to, to return. Nothing cataclysmic to that.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

You do not have base rights. You have rights to a specific seat in a specific base for 180 days. The base will go more senior (ATL) but you will have first dibs on your seat until sometime in late June to early July. (There will be another bid in the first part of the year)

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

Marketing wants a GUM base now, Planning wants to make dead for certain that Marketing is going to commit for longer than 12 months to that flying. They DO NOT want to establish a base only to have it dismantlement twelve months from now. The flying will probably happen soon, when they pull the trigger on the base is anyone's guess. They just have to believe that the flying will be there long term to do it.

It is to be 10% of the 73N fleet. (10 Jets from what I am told)

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

There are ways to massage this whole deal. I am know they know that. We can still modify the bid with part of it getting canceled after the fact, many going to training, a clean up bid, a bid modification, or a totally new bid. There are many ways for them to tweak it.

Yes they are looking at modifying what we are seeing now, and there have been some developments that may require a modification. Marketing moves quick and Crew Planning likes to slow it down a little to take the Highs and Lows out of it for all of us.