Originally Posted by
TOGA LK
A great example and another sales pitch for a monthly bid. One receives a seat lock during the conversion window. Potentially, another AE posts towards the end of this freeze with a 9-month conversion window. If you are ineligible at the beginning of this freeze then your freeze would effectively carry on for another 9 months for a potential, 32 or so total months. Seniority is abrogated for the pilots after the 24 month freeze by
administrative means; potentially timed and orchestrated by management to further reduce training costs (another post later on video professor).
Just my observation about this AE system. Everyone want's their seniority to qualify them to enter a base, but once established in a base they want something more than seniority to keep them there. Just an observation, not that I disagree.
I have never seen a year without at least 3 bids and 6 to 8 is more normal. NWA did have a monthly system however it carried with it a much longer freeze. I believe it was 3 years. I will take the current system with the shorter freeze. The situation you posted has not occurred in the last 10 years that I can recall. There is always another bid well before the end of a 9 month cycle. Often there are multiple bids.