Should be first full week of January.

January 9th sounds about right.

The vacancy numbers as well as the projections are an absolute joke. The projections move up and down 20% from bid to bid. They advertise 20 spots somewhere then stick 50 there.

It's my understanding APA has kneecapped the company because of requirements when publishing bids and awarding those published. So the company will post low numbers and then overpromise so in order to not get penalized.

Who knows, they might also do some runs just prior to it closing to see what the training costs are, and if they have extra room for xx ac/seat statuses they will change it up. I really have no idea but I am pretty sure APA brought it on themselves in some respects.

As always, bid what you want and fly what you can hold.

This has to be the case. There’s no way it takes over a month to actually run the bid lol.

How long it takes to actually run a vacancy here is absurd. APA needs to put some contractual limits on the timing of this. Relatively small ask imo.

I just wish it was done six or eight times a year (if not monthly).

Agreed. Such a painful process 😁

It’s because of backfills? If 10 FOs leave 787 ORD and they advertise 20, they will need 30 to fill the numbers.

It's a full WEEK after the monthly bids come out (which come out about a week after they do at most airlines) when trading opens. Every single process we have is glacial.

Was it last year they had the botched run of PBS and did the full re-run in ~18 hours on a weekend? Imagine if our normal runs were 24 hours instead of three days. If TTS opened a day after everything dumped into DECS instead of a week. If vacancies took a week instead of a month.