I bet the number of pilots who bid off the 330 between the 12 and 24 month point is virtually nil unless it’s to upgrade to CA in which case the freeze would not apply. 330 Sim assets are very scarce and they are paying big bucks for offsight time.

I don't know their sim plans but they need a lot asap

Where is the offsite training? Just about anything sounds more appealing than Virginia Ave.

Toulouse would be nice.

I think they go to Airbus in 36th St in Miami.

Miami Beach, filler

They’re shopping around for additional options. Any other Airbus sims in the US?

If it is so low, then why did the company decide to extend the seat lock for the course?

And the pilot in your example could only break the lock for their left-seat bid if it was their first captain upgrade.

Which does make Virgina Ave sound a bit better than it did when Toulouse was the other option.

What I don't get is why do they call that place College Park when there is no college and is no park?

Why do you park in a driveway? Why do some think a Miata isn't a sportscar? These are things we'll never understand.

They review student performance and critiques in evaluating the sim requirements for each type of training. They did not extend the seat lock. They added sims which put the training in a different bucket contractually. 3 or more years ago I suspect the company and MEC would have sat down and reached a agreement to sign a LOA amending the requirements and keep the seat lock the same. We don’t have that type of relationship now. I don’t know of a single pilot who has bid off the 330 under 24 months with one exception and he went to Captain.
Adding two sims means for every five students they put through they lose the ability to train one full course student. I guarantee you that adding sims was far more expensive to the company than the 1 or 2 guys a year who might bid off between the 12 and 24th month. Pilots arrive on the 330 and tend to camp forever!
You also need to understand this is a AQP program with extensive FAA monitoring of bust rate and extra sim periods required as well as IOE times required. More than likely in the current 330 sim environment the FAA mandated the change. The company is not about to give up 330 sim periods given the accelerated delivery schedule unless they were strongly compelled to do so.

Same guy, why do they call them apartments when they are so close together?

Exactly! Which makes me wonder why are they called apartments if they are so close together....or why are they called classified ads if everybody can read them?? Hmmm.....

I know, right?! Such rad understeer in that beast!

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Damn I love this gif. "It seemed like a good idea at the time, it was fun for a minute."

What a metaphor

AE closes in 45 minutes! Place your bets!

Results are OUT! Too soon?

Last airline had a "what if" function. Once pressed it would tell you what you would hold if the bids closed at that moment.
Usually 1 min before bids closed guys could see what they would be awarded.

Place your bets on when the results will be published!

I’m going with COB Thursday given that it’s a sizable bid but no surpluses.

COB Friday

I think they'll be doing a lot of runs with multiple bypass scenarios

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You also drive on a parkway...

And land on a taxiway...wait.

Can confirm, neither anywhere in sight....

It seems like I got the impression they were still evaluating the new software and hadn’t committed to it yet. I wish they had......

feb 4 COB..

Oh great. They get to run the bids 69 x 2 to evaluate the new vs old.

Everyone's favorite oxymoron, standing on a moving walkway.

I’ll bet part of their evaluation includes exactly that, comparing the two, which means it will be out on the “old” timeline.

Bets on most shocking awards?

im going with 2014 hire, atl 73nA

I think we’ll see a 2014 7ERA in NYC.

You guys took all the good ones so I have to go with a wild guess. 2018 ATLM88A

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I’m gonna take a WAG that the junior capt is going to be a 13,6xx number. 🤔 ATL -88A

Lax 320A goes to 12,1xx

Does a 12,400 number get LAXA or NYC220A? Haha

12,500 would love nyc220A lol

LAX barely cracked 10,200 or so last bid. I’d be surprised if it goes below 10,900. But I guess that’s why it’s an unexpected prediction.

the trips SUCK. So I could seeing lax320A getting deep into the 11,000s

I agree, with not many vacancies posted for LA and maybe even a little shrinking on the 737 fleet, I don't think LA goes below 10500.

FNG here. How long after the AE closes do they typically post results? I know there's a new system or something but this is my first AE.

Depends on the size of the bid. 2-7 days recently.

Supposedly they have some new software that speeds things up, but it sounds like it's still in the testing phases. Probably needs union approval too..and we know how much our union loves to say NO!