Originally Posted by
Bluto
All good points. As someone who is in the booted group (I have more than 250 people junior to me) I was just venting a little frustration and giving the potential newhires an idea of the status quo.
Tell me more! Are you talking about SLC specifically? Or West Coast bases in general? This is timely, based entirely on your info, I may buy a house today.
Some of the 2007 hire guys are still in SLC. I'm a mid 07 hire and can hold a line on either the 320 or the -800. Would be 2 from the bottom on the ER. There are quite a few 08 and later guys that were here then booted so it may be some time before newhires get to SLC. If LAX and SEA grow some then SLC will probably be the junior base of the west coast bases and may be a little easier for newhires to get.
On a good note I was told by a marketing guy that 757's will always be in SLC and will not be replaced by the 737-9 because the 737-9 will not perform out of SLC in the summer. Basically said that if anything SLC will probably be about the same size going forward and will probably not see any big changes in staffing numbers. That is good as we have heard some speculate that the 757 base would close here which would not be good.