Busdrivr

VPS letter is out.

HerkDriver

I'm sure the first bid will be posted tomorrow afternoon at around 4:30 LBT...to give us all something to ponder over the weekend.

Overnitefr8

Actually, it sounds like there is going to be another HKG vacancy bid first, then two excess bids. So if you have HKG in your standing bid to get Passover, watch out.

Daniel Larusso

As far as I can tell, there is nothing stopping them from releasing 09-01 (HKG vacancy) and 09-02(Airbus/MD excess) at the same time. They could do it on one bid, but the FDA vacancies would drive that bid to be open a minimum of 28days vs. 14 for for non-FDA existing bids. Doing it sequentially would mean a minimum of 28+14+14 days for the vacancy/2 excess plan for a total of 56 days. That's within the 6-8 week time frame mentioned, but seems wildly unrealistic since it gives them little time to process the bids and get out training letters that won't get hammered by the union like previous excesses. My best guess would be a simultaneous release of the vacancy and the excess as separate bids, giving people a 14 day snapshot of where they stand after round 1(of 2009) before the HKG bid closes. Then they release the training letter and second excess also for 14 days. That puts them in the neighborhood of 6 weeks with 2 weeks to get the training letter out or run a 3rd cleanup excess if need be. Please return your seatbacks to the full and upright position, Tyler Durden has entered the ring.....

FedExBusBoy

There have been 3 310's parked at VCV just in the past 10 days.......

It's gonna get real ugly, real soon

Overnitefr8

They were already planning on parking 9 for awhile. I think it's up to 15 now. But don't know when all the parking started though.

MEMA300

Sound to me like they are doing HKG vacancy first as a stand alone bid. Then all the others. So I will hold off on my HKG bid until the excess bid of my seat.

Overnitefr8

You'd think they would get more takers for HKG if they had that bid last. "Well, I've been excessed back to the ??seat of the NB. I can be a WB ??seat in HKG."

DixieFlyer

Spoke with one of the AOC MX guys yesterday, he said 16 ABuses parked, but that was the limit of the plan (so far).

MEMA300

I heard 16 A310s a few months ago. So that sounds right.