Originally Posted by
Steve McCroskey
I'm hoping to get to LAX asap so that timeline sounds pretty nice.
How long was the wait to get into the sims?
I'm thinking that if I take the biggest gap between ground and sim it'll help knock out a month or two of having to commute to MSP or ORD. I don't care about reserve as long as I can drive to base.
Hah... That was my plan, as well, and I got lucky. A 7 week wait between ground and sims meant 7 weeks less commuting to ORD reserve from home in SFO. (I was awarded SFO for March and I was a Sept 14 hire.)
However...I got lucky. I nabbed the last spot among the deferrals. Plenty of guys in my class had all of 12 hours off between the end of Ground and Sim Day 1. Not everyone can take the delay... You bid for it. And in your class, your seniority is determined by the last 4 of your SSN. 0000= senior, 9999= junior. So, just be aware... The delay is not by any means guaranteed. And BTW, LAX is now slightly more senior than SFO on the CRJ. It'd take me another 2 months to hold LAX.