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Originally Posted by FlyinPiker (Post 875626)

Damni.t!

I hate posting on one of these big a.ss pages.

It would have been worth it if it was at least because of some boobies....but NYC? Weak....

well, since you asked...

Wow...those puppies look like they need some air!

Free the tatties!

( ..I'm glad I didn't reply directly to the pic....new page action, sweet!)

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Originally Posted by FlyinPiker (Post 875603)

I hear ya. Not trying to put salt in the SLI wounds, but anyone can read the numbers. The hire dates are what what bring home the "wow" factor.

No disrespect meant.

Why is that? Those are an irrelevant metric. More impressive is that 9XXX went to the whale...

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Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 875625)

Of course, in that example it may be that there are no more bidders beyond the 14 awarded in, and therefore, 34 slots will truly become unfilled vacancies.

But you could also look at a WB B category, or junior A category, both with plenty of bidders, and see them not backfill slots which would NOT generate unfilled vacancies for newhires.

For example, I don't know if the projected headcount for the NYC M88 A changed, but I assume a few went out, and noone came in.

Pretty confusing, at least to me.

Yeah I thought it was strange with the 14 out and 14 in thing, the cutoff being so high for the final awarded slot, and 12 guys bidding the MSP DC-9 over the Maddog if there were slots (maybe they didn't want to be seatlocked so they could bid the bus later who knows) but it could just be that with all the Airbus slots open there just wasn't any more love for the old Maddog.

You and Super are probably right.

Trying to figure out what happens next used to be something I enjoyed, but now it just gives me a big headache :).

fNWA NYC 767-400?

Saw a couple of NYC765 CA get 747CA. I would have guessed that they were fNWA CA (would have to be) So how is it that they would get to break a freeze and get the 747CA...And when would they have been awarded the 767-400...last bid? Can anyone say..training churn?

Sink. Look at the 22D.3 Report. It shows their projected staffing in each seat at the end of this conversion window. You are correct is noting that there are a lot of narrowbody seat reductions on this bid, and there is a reason for it.

See if the chatter you guys are hearing can put two and two together on this! :D

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Originally Posted by reddog25 (Post 875655)

I just checked. Most of them were previous 755 guys, and as mentioned, had a 9 month freeze for the conversion to 765, which expired 1 Oct.

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 875573)

Smart move for the guys bidding to the 767. A freeze without a freeze....

I resemble that remark... Is it too early to enter my MD for the next bid?

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Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 875656)

We're going to merge? We're going to give more big aircraft to the regionals? We're going to hire and increase the narrow body staffing back up next year? I'm not very good with math. I know that 2+2=4, but I'm struggling to make sense of it. Can you just tell us?

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Originally Posted by reddog25 (Post 875655)

I've flown with a couple of them, they had a 9 mos. freeze eff. 01Jan2010 because they were 7ER (755) guys before the 765, their freeze was up 01Oct10.