Vacancy 26-05
12-02-2025 | 10:15 AM
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There could be Guppy captains awarded as backfills. SFO, LAX, EWR, LAS, DCA and GUM all have MIN at current staffing, so every guppy captain that bids Airbus will get backfilled in those bases. But without WB on this bid there isn't going to be as many backfills like the last one. 96 Captain bids in one month is not anything to turn one's nose up for. There are other airlines that haven't had 96 Captain bids in the last year, and many are displacing Captains.
Allowing up to 47 & 41 FOs to bid away from their 777 and 787 seats, respectively, without backfills.
Certainly hope the 787 seat certification issue is short-lived!
12-02-2025 | 11:05 AM
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MIN is a tool to control training and limit transfers out of critical bases. Same with WB FO. We aren't "overstaffed" on it because the min is less. They want to control awards via bids and not via backfills.
12-02-2025 | 11:18 AM
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2) I never said we were overstaffed, only implied that there may not be an IMMEDIATE need for such WB FOs (if there were, the MIN would equal the MAX)
3) Just being realistic about the bid; you pointed out the MIN was kept to the MAX across most 737 CA... I was simply pointing out the MIN was lower across some widebody FO seats with no vacancies there this time.
Last edited by FlyingSlowly; 12-02-2025 at 11:26 AM. Reason: clarifications
12-02-2025 | 08:12 PM
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12-03-2025 | 09:03 AM
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The CRU explicitly stated there would be an airbus bid in December so I doubt many derps are caught eating crow. The question is what the vacancies look like going forward after this one. We all want big beautiful bids
12-03-2025 | 09:26 AM
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So many people love reading the tea leaves or have some weird conspiracy theories about how the company wants to screw the pilot group.
12-03-2025 | 10:01 AM
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Yes and they said WB bids in Jan/Feb and more 737 CA in March. But as you can see from my responses one of the derps said they said November bid was "full staffing for 2025" and there would be no more bids until next fall. To which I pointed out the December airbus bids and the CRUs going all the way back to August explaining what the next 6 months of bids would look like.
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