Originally Posted by Surd

Thanks.

I think the lesson from the ATL717B stagnation for a new hire is to be careful about chasing a new category. Once they stop adding new seats, most everyone in category is seat locked and you're stuck where you are at with very little movement. I could see the same thing happening with LAX717B or SEA73NB, where guys think that the 717 will be a quick way to get to LA (or 73 to SEA) and instead they basically lock themselves out. I doubt that is the case yet as I think both categories are still growing.

Amazing how quick things change. 320 looked good a month ago, and now guys that picked it in the last couple classes may be stuck where they are at for a while. Last year, M88 was the quickest way to get to MSP, but now you can get there in a few months in the 7ER, while there are still a bunch of M88 guys that can't get there. The 7ER looks like a great play for a new hire right now (think about how ugly it looked when you were a new hire in Sep...) with so many unfilled vacancies every where, but eventually the train of new hires to the 7ER will come to a screeching halt as the 757 start to retire.

Bottomline for a new hire reading this, the best aircraft to get to where ever you want to go or gain seniority changes, sometimes monthly, so take anything you read on this forum with a grain of salt. And remember we are talking about stagnation in terms of months. Queue up anybody hired before 2014 on how they walked up hill in snow both ways to their sims during training, and saw no movement for years.