Originally Posted by
jws3443
Looking for somewhere that's possibly commutable from the east coast, but cheap enough to live in should I bite the bullet and move. Also, a place that has decent trips to survive on 1st year pay. And then where it would be most likely to hold a line the quickest. Is there any base in particular where most of the transitions are going to come from when they run that class?
FAT is probably the cheapest domicile to live in but the worst to commute to. SFO and LAX will be the easiest commutes for you by far but probably the most unaffordable to live in. SLC might be your happy middle ground. Not a bad commute and it's affordable.
FAT is where you'll hold a line the quickest. SFO and LAX aren't bad either. In SLC and PDX there are two year bro FOs on reserve. That could easily change once transitions start up but they've hardly transitioned anyone in the past year.
I would expect the junior domiciles like FAT, SFO and LAX to lose pilots the quickest once transitions start. Most people in those domiciles already have bids in to transition and are just playing the waiting game. Almost 90% of the people in SFO have their bid in. The senior domiciles have more people who want to stay on the brasilia in order to live in base.
Originally Posted by
coryk
You can always two leg it on Airways to FAT thru PHX. They do 5 flights a day.
FAT is a disaster of a commute though. I was two legging it from ORD for a long time and I would always get out to LAX or PHX with no problem at all then get bumped 4-5 times in a row going into FAT. There were times when I left my house at 8am on my day off and didn't get to FAT until 10pm or later. I've had to drive from LA or SFO more than once due to being bumped off the last flight of the night or having the last flight cancel.