If there is an opening that the company posts and if you're senior enough on the TDY base list to hold it.
In other words very unlikely.
If you're coming to Allegiant to be home every night realize that you won't see your family until you're able to bid your permanent base instead of the TDY base assignment out of newhire class. That's assuming you get MD80 though. An Airbus or 757 award will get a base but that may be even worse for you.
You could be based at home in a few months or a few years. If it's the latter you'll be divorced.
Also it depends on what your newhire class is given. If you are awarded 757 like the last class was then you'll be based in LAS or HNL only. MD80 wouldn't be able to bid BLI at all as they become a full Airbus base.
I'm not sure if they will seat lock a newhire for two years, but if they do and you live in Florida while being awarded the 757 you're screwed.
So to recap....
As a newhire you'll get one of the following...
-MD80 TDY base
-757 HNL or LAS
-Airbus IWA BLI FLL SFB PIE
If you get MD80 you will never be able to go to BLI and likely FLL until you can bid out of it.
If you get 757 you will only get LAS or HNL until you can bid out of it.
If you get Airbus you can't bid PGD OAK ENV LAS until you can bid out of it.
I don't know how long until a newhire can bid out of it.
Last edited by labbats; 09-27-2014 at 09:07 AM.