Hah! I'll bet they release the bid right after the Crew Resources guys and gals go home for the weekend. They do take the phone off the hook though for a couple of days , too.

I was so hoping we would see the AE results today. 430pm now and the resources people have gone home. Why didn't they close this bid at 10am yesterday so they could have worked on it earlier?
So now they'll have it out monday at 11am,2 hours after showing up for work.
Really, they can't finish this up now? No problem if we're delayed two hours before we can go home...

I've tried changing the URL from the 17 Aug results to .....20121109, but no luck. It looks like we wait patiently at the front door. :( Maybe it's so ugly they have to revisit on Monday. The B767 FO displacements could cause a good sized training ripple for being a small group.

I think they closed it at 1500, but don't disagree overall. I don't see how these things would take more than about 2 hours to run, and 5 hours to verify.

I think it gets a little trickier when you have to manually decide what to backfill, what open positions to withdraw, and what displacements to allow.

All speculation on my part, but I think all AE's are tweaked, and tweaked. Nothing illegal, because the contract is far too permissive on this topic.

Well ... it isn't their job, or their pay, or quality of life that hangs in the balance. ...

Gunfighter and Sink are on the mark. The number of pilots they hold and allow to backfill make all the difference in the displacement pin action.

In the old days it always took them a bunch of days,now even with major displacements it takes them a day at the most.
That's why I said if they had closed the bid at 10am yesterday instead of 3pm yesterday,we could have seen the results today. But why would they care right?
I think the resources people are more busy planning their roadshow in NRT on 12-14 nov.

I tried the back door on Buzz's schedule. No dice. :D

I put this right up there with the additional A330's rumor.

Grrrr. Must get the AE
Man this is worse than Christmas as a kid waiting to see whether i got anthracite or Bituminous. ..
... And just the same. Expecting lump of coal and hoping for socks if I'm lucky.

Well, let's say the first run produced massive MDs. I'm sure they're now just trying to make decisions on how they want to handle that and say run some categories, say the ER, fat?

Just a hunch but everyone loves their 757/767. My hunch is these senior ATL 767 guys go to the ER. ER guys would then get displaced and most likely to airplanes they can hold. And knowing that these pilots will bid back to the 757/767 ASAP, then they know they'll have to pay for two training cycles per MD'd ER pilot. That cost cash, which is just money. So what's the ROI on MDing an ER pilot to the 73 vs keeping them on the ER?

I'm frankly surprised they'd be able to get it out in a day. Hope they do so pilots don't wait around til Monday. I think that's kind of crappy given that it's MDs. Which is all we seem to do anymore.