I wouldn't be surprised but the idea is flawed at best. The IMSL is not used to fill vacancies at this point. They can litigate once again but it would be a complete waste of IBT membership dues.

If you are interested in applying to F9 you should plan on an east coast base. Chicago is very junior and the further east they open a base the more junior that base will become, with Florida being the only exception.

We have a lot of operations out of ILM-TTN-PHL area.

We bid hard lines but management has had their eyes on pref bid since LOA 19 (we now have 70 LOA's). They want pref bid very bad and we don't want to give up the monetary-power of bidding conflicts. I can almost guarantee pref-bid will be back in the news again once the separation takes place.

Our line holder rules provide an incredible amount of flexibility. Our RSV rules are not great. The RSV section was negotiated in a very different time. When I was hired I completed OE, sat RSV for the last week of the month and held a line the very next month. We now have pilots that have been on RSV for more than 5 years.

The Chief Pilots' Office just resurrected the Silver Bullet referral program. Getting a job at F9 is a lot easier with a referral so networking with friends at F9 is important.

Getting hired now might prove to be pretty interesting considering the fact that a successful Private Equity company is interested in making a lot of money off of a Frontier IPO. Best case scenario is growth, IPO, followed by ULCC consolidation. Worst case scenario is we shut down. At this point I would put our odds at 75/25.