Its amazing what you hear when management is out flying the line. And this is a "rumor" network lest you forgot.
And last but not least . . . we were supposed to go back to three bases (JFK, ANC, LAX). There has been no such letter for the bid so who knows.
The Polar D/O announced that in his "ops update"" dated Oct 31 on the crew corner of Globalnet. It starts 1 Jan 09. It is at the bottom of page two.