Roger, thanks for the correction. Do you happen to know where this is spelled out?

It's a little cryptic to me and Xray seems to have corrected me. But I would have said the 88Bs are different because those are jobs they give new hires. Contractually, new hires cannot be awarded something that isn't first advertised on an AE.

The last AE award (I can only find it, and not the AE announcement itself) lists Captain awards in 26 separate categories, 11 of which are wide body (If you include 7ER). Surely these weren't all in the AE, but I haven't cross-referenced to verify that all awarded categories with a retiring A slot were first listed in the announcement.

TED,
You must post positions on an AE if you intend to replace attrition.

What you are thinking of is backfill. Backfill happens when someone "bids" out of a given position for another position and that vacated position is subsequently filled in the same AE process. This is when you'd see positions awarded that were not on the AE. It was due to vacancies created by the posted AE, not attrition/retirements.

This AE starts a change in Crew Resources strategy in order to prevent the critical staffing levels we've been seeing on the narrowbodies because of mass exodus to larger equipment on recent AEs.

The main intent of this AE is to create positions for new hires on narrowbodies in order to keep the simulators full, and overstaff the narrowbodies with new hire FOs. That way the replacements will already be there when there is increased movement from the next larger AE.

Per Crew Resources latest newsletter, There will be more opportunity for Delta Pilots over the next few years then there has been in a Generation. Want What You Bid, Bid What You Want

Well if crew resources said it, it must be true.

PWA, section 22, Filling of vacancies.

Can anyone tell me if we still get the FedEx 75% 2 day air discount? I can't find it listed on the Delta Perks website.

I have used recently and we get a discount. As far as percentage don't know. But they will tell you price of all the options and 2 day is best deal.

That's hilarious. They just keep cramming more cottage cheese into the bursting bag that is the NYC base. In the worst plane with the worst trips with the highest attrit.

Marketing needs to take a back seat to reality. The only way to douse the flames of the operational meltdown is to reduce the NYC base not grow it with commuting new hires who will all bid out the instant they can. #reality