Only on business days. First Snap Shot on Monday.

Couldn't agree more, but a company is more than it's management or do y'all think we are worthy of being equated with Tilton? Don't half comment.

First Snap is out

I am actually very surprised how senior almost everything went. I guess the outline of when to expect training caused a lot to jump.

It will be interesting to see the final because of what is possible with secondary awards. Language from the Vacancy announcement below:
Right now a bunch of the 777 CA awards are laterals, so they could create a good number more 777 CA slots to fill training.

• 4 DCA 777 CAP
• 1 EWR 777 CAP
• 3 IAH 777 CAP
• 3 SFO 777 CAP

So, as it stands right now there could be 11 more 777 CAP bids given out in the final award than are shown today. That, of course, would have a huge ripple effect down the seniority list.

Also, most of the DEN 737 CAP awards and almost all of the DEN 737 FO awards are laterals, so if they take advantage of the secondary award language for those locations, you could see a bunch more movement in Denver, potentially even "unfilled" 737 FO slots.

All of this depends on how much Manpower Planning uses that availability. Figure since they actually have gone out of their way to include the info in the Vacancy Announcement, we should see at least some secondary awards.

Don’t forget the backfills for all the ORD777CA that are bidding the new ORD787 base.

There will not be any backfills to the 777 in ORD for either seat. This category is being reduced and looking at the HUGE spread between Max and Mins in the bulletin, you can see there won't be backfills.

No way there will be unfilled Denver positions. This is the first vacancy bid my new hire class is competitive for and over 400 folks have been hired since then.

while you are probably correct, I am reminded of Dumb and Dumber - "So you are telling me there's a chance."

Right now on the snapshot, there are 27 awards to DEN 737 FO and the juniormost award is about 225 seniority numbers from the bottom of the seniority list. So, by just that info it doesn't look too promising. However, when you consider that 26 of those 27 awards are laterals you realize that there is a chance. Right now if the company so desired, they could continue awarding DEN 737 FO positions until they got to 26 more pilots that needed 737 training. Since there are not 26 pilots at that seniority level that are legal to be awarded a 737 assignment (new hires on the 320 or 756 are not eligible) that would require training, that means they can award as many 737 FO positions in Den as they want. Now I don't know how many they will elect to award, but they will need to decide between DEN, IAH, and EWR on where they want to keep awarding. If they are satisfied with the numbers in IAH and DEN, then they will stick with the unfilled spots they have in LAX, SFO, and EWR or just keep awarding unfilled spots in EWR until they get to enough unfilled spots to fill their training needs. Then new hires going to the 737 will all be going to traditional spots of SFO, LAX or EWR.

That coupled with the fact that they can also award 7 more DEN 737 CAP slots than are currently being shown, means you could have extra movement from that as well.

So, I am back to Dumb and Dumber:

Interesting points! Thanks for the write up. The snapshots are fun to look at!

I see that now, thanks. I just read the SSC report which provides good insight.