Originally Posted by
labbats
Two things...
BLI is likely going to shrink per comments by management in a recent ground school. OAK is a 50/50 shot to stay open.
Don't apply here because you live anywhere other than Florida. The West coast bases of IWA and LAS are going to be here for the long haul, but they are very stagnant and you'll likely wait years before you can hold a line there. BLI and OAK may or may not stay open in 5 years.
Also, the upgrade time just released is very misleading. Many FOs could have held it but the current state of affairs here made most pass it up. If you could see the seniority list toward the bottom of the CA list you'd see whole blocks of FOs who just don't want to deal with the madness of being junior at this company.
Edit: To illustrate my point there were 12 upgrades. The most junior CA before this bid was #207 out of 415.
The most junior CA on this bid is #257.
Management mentioned the same thing about BLI in our RGS. But then he said the all the west coast bases were overstaffed, which clearly isn't the case, so I'm not sure how believable it was. You get a different answer depending on who you ask. The right hand NEVER knows what the left is doing here.
And Labbats is correct. Almost every west coast FO will only bid west coast upgrade. The rumor on this last bid was that CA could go as jr as a 2013 hire because no one wanted PGD. Didn't happen, but it was surprising to hear that.