Baradium

I thought united had some type of type specific recency too.

MongoC5

I believe they do. Plus they fly it only outta EWR, so you are dealing with a much smaller pilot group for currency issues and add on they have two sims

Mongo

bohicagain

I believe they have 2 767-400 sims

We have 1

Can't do recurrent with the amount of ER crews and 767-400 crew we have.

Fourpaw

Any thoughts on ATL320A going junior again? August AE had several 11-12k numbers but October only went to 4900 or so. Looks like 11-13k gets you everywhere besides MSP.

FangsF15

It went so Junior because there were 65 & 80 spots in 2 senate AE’s as growth. That always sees awards go “artificially” junior. With only 10 vacancies on the last bid, there wasn’t nearly enough churn, but I was surprised to see it go so senior on that bid.

That said, it’s hard to predict bidding behavior. I wouldn’t count on it dropping to 11,XXX again. But who knows? These days, you can’t be suprised by much.

higney85

A bid opening post April 23’ will release many seat locks and really change things for a bid or two. The covid MOAD and rebid put many into 2 year locks that made sense then, but it’ll be time to move now.

tcco94

I am also curious about what happens after the April bid. For those who are eligible to bid this next Q4 or Q1 AE, I’d make sure to make a decision because appears the Q2 AE is going to be a lot different I imagine. Depends on how many people gave up and upgraded too I suppose and re-seat locked themselves. Or if they run another MOAB 2023 then it will still be bananas I’m sure.

FAIPMAFIA

Will the trend to see junior captains continue? Especially in the ER?

crazyjaydawg

I think NB Captain will continue to go junior, even more so. Most NB Bs, especially those seat locked from post-UNA times, want to go WB B more so than NB A. Since there’s no seat lock preventing first time upgrades, just about everyone that wants to upgrade has had the chance.

Of course plenty of people hold until xx% seniority, but the bottom 10% of most NB A will continue to go junior.

higney85

No way to presume the next bid. Without a contract and the company going for max productivity, interesting domestic could go junior. Intl can’t be messed with as much. If a contract is before next bid, especially after 5/1/23, seniority will get a different light in awards. At this point WB is a higher idea than any NB A or even ER-A, personally. And I’m still going to wait until seniority gets me what I want when sitting in the top 25-30% of my category. There really isn’t a QOL hideout right now if you want a regular line. The company knows this and pushes efficiency. Problem becomes, folks have had enough and are tired of hitting the max EVERTHING metrics. Intl is different and many wanted to do it now that the world is opened, but locks exist and a bid bid post April will be interesting. My guess is a bid with a March 1 date for locks and push the issue down the line.