KC10- you may be on to something, and my reasoning is this:

At the time the larger aircraft (I'm not goin to go so far as to say 767s to newhires again- yet) were being awarded to noobs, we were making a dramatic shift to widebody flying.

This same shift is apparently planned to occur again.

The first few classes will very likely end up with a mix of 88, 9, 320, and 73N slots.

I imagine NYC, DTW, and MSP will make up the majority of those slots, with possible ATL or LAX.