Originally Posted by Dave Fitzgerald

Sorry, but for the forseable future, the LCO and LUa fleets will be operated separately. The official word is that some time next year, they say summer, they will combine the fleets. But...they have been saying that for the last 2 years. The remaining planes are supposed to be modified to a singe configuration, once that happens, they will co-mingle the fleets. Haven't seen one yet.

765 bid position is LCO planes, 757-200 domestic and overwater and 767-400

76T bid is LUa 757-200 domestic, overwater, PS, ETOPS, and 767-300

You can switch between fleets using a bidding process, but you cannot fly the other planes once you bid on one side. Mainly the former UA bases fly 76T, and CO bases fly 756. IAH, LAX, and EWR have both 756 and 76T.

Originally Posted by pilotgolfer

Careful with that LCO abbreviation...taken out of context, some might think it harkens back to the Low Cost Operation part of a previous contract.

Originally Posted by pilotgolfer

Careful with that LCO abbreviation...taken out of context, some might think it harkens back to the Low Cost Operation part of a previous contract.

Originally Posted by pilot64golfer

LCC = Low Cost Carrier
LCAL = Legacy Continental
LCO = Lithium Cobalt Oxide (a type of battery)

Originally Posted by Dave Fitzgerald

Yeah...that's the ticket. I was talking about batteries....hmmm...yeah....

Originally Posted by pilotgolfer

Just for the record, pilot64golfer is not me.

Originally Posted by GoCats67

this is a bit like predicting the stock market (past performance doesn't predict the future), but for what it is worth the current vacancy bid snapshot for 76T and 756 FO shows:

40+ bids to IAH with all of them filled (junior seniority 11898 on 67T and 12095 on the 756)

only 4 bids to LAX with all of them filled

no bids to SFO

Now the final results will come out later today and will include whatever additional "backfilling" of bids the company wants to do. This will result in the potential for additional bids and will also give a little better indication on what the plan is for the size of the West Coast 76T and 756 operation.

For instance on the bid there are 10 SFO 76T FOs that have taken a bid off the airplane. The company doesn't have to replace them but they can. So, if we see 10 awards on the final bid results today we will know that the company doesn't want the domicile to shrink any more. If that is the case, movement West might be ok on the 67 (still no where near as fast as the 320).