Originally Posted by 1900CA

I just left Lakes at the beginning of the year. Upgrades on the 1900 are back down to about a year with people willing to accept some of the junior bases (FMN, PRC, maybe CYS) and hovering around 1.5 to people who are holding out for DEN. As far as a new FO, from what I heard and saw most of the FO's that were awarded bases in either PRC or FMN moved to those bases full time and signed year leases on apartments. That being said there is a possibility that you could be able to hold DEN fairly quick if not right away. Most of the time as a new hire if you want back to DEN you can expect it to take 3 months. That is considering all your cards fall into place perfectly. There are several good options for crash pads at most of the outstation that range from $80 - $150 a month, as long as your not too good for an air mattress in a house/apartment where yo may have to share a room with someone else for 3-5 nights a month. One up side to an outstation base as opposed to DEN is that the lines in those bases are averaging around 85 hr of flying a month where most of the DEN lines are around 75 hrs.