Originally Posted by eschukos

It is seniority based. They can't open a position to new hires that has not already been offered to the pilot group. So once they run out of pilots on property that are willing and able to go to the 145, they will open those positions to new hires. If you want to fly the 145 at PDT in the near future, my advice would be to suck it up and accept a Dash position. Who knows the old girl might even teach you a thing or to.