I sympathise with those who were asked to reapply, however as I understand it, everyone on the hold was given the option of being considered for 777 or 737 NZ positions. At least everyone
I know was. A lot of people must have said no as they are now interviewing for said positions.
Yes it sucks as we all wanted domestic positions, but "a bird in the hand".....
Good luck to everyone going through the interview process! Hopefully you won't have to wait as long as we did