What's New

With the March Vacancy announcement right around the corner, please check out the site’s newest tool: Bid Status Compare. This page allows you to pick up to six bid statuses and see your forward-looking seniority projection for each one, side by side. Toggle pay on to see each path’s pay rate beside its seniority. Bonus: Your personalized career milestones such as ability to hold a line and to hold different trip types (1-4 days for narrowbody) are displayed right on the chart, helping you compare paths. Finally, recent vacancy data is displayed for your convenience and the page shows you your expected landing percentage for the next two vacancy runs if you bid into that status. Good luck on the bid!

The “When Can I Hold” projection engine is now aware of vacancy data. Previously, the projections only looked at the current list, the seniority it took to hold a seat, future retirements, and growth. That model had a blind spot if the company rapidly grew or shrank a bid status, or a bid status experienced more than normal turnover during a vacancy run. Every page now runs through a single shared projection model, and that model takes vacancy awards into account. Bid statuses that went junior to you on a recent vacancy run will now say so. In addition, projected dates beyond the vacancy run are updated accordingly. The previous “smooth” trajectory curve has been replaced with a Vacancy Runs card that shows how the last six vacancies moved that bid status. I think you will find it useful. Please give the entire page a look and send me your feedback!

The 14 month trend cards have also been redesigned. Previously, these cards just showed trends for the seniority numbers themselves. That was not very actionable data considering the expansion of the list itself as the company grows...so every bid status appeared to be getting “more junior” when relatively speaking, that was not necessarily the case. The cards have been redesigned to show relative seniority trends instead, which take the growing list into account.