Vacancy open?
 

Hello, I noticed that I was able to put in my vacancy preference on CCS. Does anyone know when the vacancy will actually be open and when it will be effective?

The bidding screen usually opens a couple weeks before a Vacancy. We might see one on Friday but who knows.

Probably this week or next week. It’s be about 2 months from the last one.

China has reopened and we are starting direct flights. I wonder if this manpower already exists? Or if we will see a good sized WB CA bid.

also for all you new hires about to be on reserve ina WB….good luck in China. I bet that is all you will see in open time for years to come.

A play from the book of “being an a$$ when saying nothing would have worked just fine”.

because you think 25hr double augment 3 days with no entry issues and us back at the same hotels is going to go junior?

the rookies will get domestic, island ANF, and bunky Japan/London if they’re lucky.

For now, it looks like the only nonstop PVG flight is going out of SFO. SFO has been flying PVG with a tech stop and crew change in ICN, so it's been 1 double-augmented crew SFO-ICN and 1 unaugmented crew ICN-PVG-ICN to do the entire trip. Now that SFO is resuming nonstops, only one double-aug crew will be needed, so I think the manpower easily exists. Maybe there will be a need once EWR-PVG and ORD-PVG resume, but that might be a while.

Believe I saw ORD starts in March too

Fixed it for you.

I guess it depended if it goes back to the 787 or not. I was on reserve in SFO on the 787 and all I ever did was go to PVG I never went to Europe.

And that was before all the Chinese BS…..

Did you get used a lot ?

If I wasn’t on SC I was in China. I was rarely left on long call

weird

(insert sarcasm here)

I see this spouted by everyone at UAL. go look at EWR awards. the junior lineholders are flying PLENTY of non domestic flying trips. the whole "you'll be bunkie forever" is nothing but untrue.

hiring has gotten ahead of the pilot groups ability to adapt and respond. non-bunkie lineholder cannot be held by someone on probation at steady state. Nobody hired 18 months ago was thinking “i’ll hold a good widebody line by start of 23, better get the 777 bid in before Christmas!” Give it time; the half-wingers will be back to reserve

Even in 756, 777 and 787 elsewhere the notion that "you can't get a flying trip" is a misnomer. Majority of lines are half and half on the very bottom end. Go look, I'm not making it up. It's not just about how junior it is in EWR, we can ignore that. I'm saying the notion that bottom lineholders can't hold flying seat is just not True.

I think you need to add “right now” as a qualifier. COVID/Ukraine threw our international flying schedule for loop, so the lure of widebody flying wasn’t what it used to be. If they ever get back to the 2019 and prior schedules, you might see something entirely different as more people will be willing to give up 50% seniority to bid WB FO.

NRT and HND trips are mega senior, why would China be different? It will pay even more.

we’ll see if people want to deal with getting stuck in China for COVID BS.

I know I don’t trust that everything will be fine. I’m sure within the first month we will have pilots stranded in China.

Wondering if this bid is going to happen or not...

Not even 2 months since the last one opened. Probably next week.

Looks like it’s opening today at noon

It is open…

One document says there are zero 737 captain positions in EWR, another says there are 10 available, and ccs says there are 34 more than what’s on the min max document. Sooooo, what is it?

I would trust the min max document.

Im trying to get 737 LAX FO and am in training right now for the 737. It was not offered it on my initial bid. But has been in the last couple. Do they fill the vacant spots with new hires more junior to you and you just have to hope that there are some spots available? Thank you all in advance…

You can bid for vacancies right away

You will more than 99 percent get LAX 737 FO on this bid.
They could make you go to base you are in now after training for a few months but may not.
Bid LAX 737 FO 100 percent

To answer your question a little more specifically, vacancies have to be awarded to those currently on property before they are are awarded to new hires. So new hires are always offered the non-awarded positions of a previous vacancy during BI. Exactly what of those leftovers is offered is up to crew resources. Now that you are on property, you can bid the current vacancy. If awarded it, you would move no later than the activation date. Most likely sooner, though.

Got it, thank you guys!

when I used to fly PEK the trips from IAD (EWR) were 4 days… NRT were 3 days… NRT went senior and PEK went junior for multiple reasons.

Isn’t there supposed to be a snapshot tonight (Friday)?

no - first snapshot on Monday

It’s like a sit-com cliff hanger… first snap after the weekend

I flew PEK for years as a 3 day. Worked 9 days a month. Loved it until 117 came along.

jeff

Why would the 117 regs have any effect on the length of that trip?

The duty window for non-acclimated crews is much smaller than if they are acclimated. The company added a day for the cost of per diem to use the bigger window.

the same reason why we augment flights to the UK that are less than 8 hours each way.

the company can’t add a pilot to a four man crew so they have to add a day.

We have found dinosaur bones on APC.

wasn’t that long ago..