The biggest decision you will make at FDX is where do you want to live. You can make any location work. But commuting into a reserve line your 1st year is hideous, you will generally have to add a day on the front and back to be legal, particularly from the left coast. A crash pad and a airport car are the cost of doing business and will eat into your 1st year pay. Catching a FDX jumpseat to work can be tough on Sundays and Mondays from a lot of locations the same with getting home at the end of the week. If you can make CGN work with the family it is a great way to get living in base benefits and then after 2 years you should be able to make commuting from anywhere work. It is hard to pick an aircraft because of the city it operates in and out of, as soon as you check out they will swap equipment and ruin your plans. That said there is no better gig than operating double deadheads out of where you live, you save a work day on each end of the pairing.