Vacancies, or staffing adjustments as they’re called here, occur whenever there are upgrades or a new hire class, or in the rare instance the company needs to, wait for it, adjust the staffing in certain domiciles.... the vacancy awards new hires their domicile so whenever someone junior gets awarded something, the pilots senior to the junior pilots get an opportunity for movement first... last year, there were a whole bunch of them... 12... this year, not so much... 4... there were 3 in the 6/19 class... all Denver... 5/19 got chi, den, mco... 4/19 had phl... 2/19 had las... I’m not looking at lineholders for fo’s and I’m not sure I even can as I’m not an fo...
If they do what they say they’re going to do, you shouldn’t be on reserve very long, regardless of domicile