Prepare yourselves… 2023 AEs
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What happens when a large majority of the seat locks end???
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Why are people still talking about this “seat lock” boogey man(person).
UNAs didn’t have a seat lock coming back. Many bid an airplane they wanted quickly; they won’t have a seat lock. Many bid captain; they may have a slightly bigger seat lock but they’re in the left seat and not likely moving. Others didn’t have a seat lock and bid WBB; also likely not going anywhere.
Some of the new hires from the last two years have various flavors of seat locks, but no significant “wave”.
What about all the other thousands of movements that have occurred over the last three years?
The “seat locks expiring next AE” is starting to sound like the recession that’s 6 months away and the free beer tomorrow.
UNAs didn’t have a seat lock coming back. Many bid an airplane they wanted quickly; they won’t have a seat lock. Many bid captain; they may have a slightly bigger seat lock but they’re in the left seat and not likely moving. Others didn’t have a seat lock and bid WBB; also likely not going anywhere.
Some of the new hires from the last two years have various flavors of seat locks, but no significant “wave”.
What about all the other thousands of movements that have occurred over the last three years?
The “seat locks expiring next AE” is starting to sound like the recession that’s 6 months away and the free beer tomorrow.
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Why are people still talking about this “seat lock” boogey man(person).
UNAs didn’t have a seat lock coming back. Many bid an airplane they wanted quickly; they won’t have a seat lock. Many bid captain; they may have a slightly bigger seat lock but they’re in the left seat and not likely moving. Others didn’t have a seat lock and bid WBB; also likely not going anywhere.
Some of the new hires from the last two years have various flavors of seat locks, but no significant “wave”.
What about all the other thousands of movements that have occurred over the last three years?
The “seat locks expiring next AE” is starting to sound like the recession that’s 6 months away and the free beer tomorrow.
UNAs didn’t have a seat lock coming back. Many bid an airplane they wanted quickly; they won’t have a seat lock. Many bid captain; they may have a slightly bigger seat lock but they’re in the left seat and not likely moving. Others didn’t have a seat lock and bid WBB; also likely not going anywhere.
Some of the new hires from the last two years have various flavors of seat locks, but no significant “wave”.
What about all the other thousands of movements that have occurred over the last three years?
The “seat locks expiring next AE” is starting to sound like the recession that’s 6 months away and the free beer tomorrow.
A month later in Apr 2021, many of the former UNA pilots then bid in a much wider/larger bid, and thus incurred a 2 year seat lock, which has now expired. The next available bid for these pilots was the June 2023 bid.
While it is true a first Captain bid can break a seat lock, that is NOT true for WB B. And if they DID break that post-UNA seat lock to Captain, they are still locked and still unable to bid WB B if they regret the Captain upgrade (probably not that many, but still some). So many many hundreds of former UNA pilots are only now able to bid to WB B.
In addition, the first of the post-Covid New Hires are still locked to their NH seats. Each month will see a couple hundred newly eligible bidders for years to come.
This phenomenon is real, it’s not a bogey man. While it’s not the entire explanation for the oddball bid awards of the last 2 years, it’s a major, major part.
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Yeah we all got to come back to that amazing fake March bid of NYC73N, 320, 220. LOL.
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