Electra

They are indeed backed up. Figure about 2.5-4 weeks before you'll fly. You won't necessarily do a Chicago trip, they will probably deadhead at least some people each way out of ORD to do a trip out of another domicile, anywhere they have a checkairman available. I have heard the wait times are coming down as the training department slows down and is putting fewer students out into the system, but checkairmen are still departing for majors just as fast as they can be trained.

As far as the super-positive comment from rcfd13 about choosing the 175 being a poor decision: It is the future of the fleet, and we will (eventually) be increasing the fleet size, so there is growth on it. However, you will be coming in with 3700 people senior to you, and as seat locks expire (and the quality of the CRJ pairings deteriorate) more CRJ pilots will transition in. The climb off the bottom, into the base of your choice and off of reserve will be potentially painful and arduous. Unless you live in ORD, don't pass up a CRJ class or two waiting for the shiny new underwing engines. My $0.02.

RedBeardedPilot

Oct 26th CRJ class as well! get those EM&L's memorized now while you have the time

Squallrider

The last bid went senior for the 175 CA, some want a training event (not sure why I haven't seen a app that requires a date to be put in), it also went senior for the upgrade because people want to use ORD to eventually get back west to Denver, if you look at the award few people are already in ORD more are out west, will be interesting to see how next DVR looks.

As a FO the ERJ is junior and the best choice if you want ORD. Extremely few people are transitioning as a FO, my FO the other day had been with the company 10 months and bidding 50% in Chicago before 2 classss finish IOE so who knows. Upgrade is going senior, FO you're fine as a new hire it would be a good choice. HOWEVER I wouldn't pass up a class for the 175, rather transition later if you want it, at the rate we're hiring now 2 months can be 150-200 people difference, that's a lot.

ready4takeoff

Is there a reason Denver is so senior on the 175 side? I would have thought the far west hubs like SEA, PDX, or SFO would have been more senior? Is it because it would be easier to commute into,out of Denver?

TPilot540

I heard it's because there are very few 175 slots in DEN.


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moflyer

I took the 175 because my seniority is about the same on the EMB-175 or CRJ in Chicago. Even bidding 30% in MSP the pairings were bad. The EMB is also a small raise.

Squallrider

SEA and PDX are getting senior on CA side, SFO seems like it started junior because people didn't want to give up their cushy crj trips before they knew what was going on with trips. Many people in SFO are commuters and trips started off with locals and 2 days. DEN is more senior relative to the rest of the company but within Denver it's not, i.e. CA that would be junior on the CRJ switched over to ERJ to get the upgrade and be senior, instead of staying FO longer to hold Denver one day, it would be the same if SLC got 175 flying, senior FOs (company wise) would take it because they wouldn't hold CA or be junior on the CRJ, so it appears it's going senior when really it's people moving back west or taking the upgrade after waiting it out to hold a particular base,

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IFLYPLANEZBRO

The latest rumor is that in addition to the 18 planes Skywest is getting through 2016 to 2017 for United. Skywest is also to get 30 more 175 airframes for Alaskan. Anyone else hear about this?

Is offline

I would not hold believe that for now.

CBreezy

Can someone translate this?