Originally Posted by tom11011

The class I am in had 4 or 5 go to the 757. They will be based in HNL until that base closes in August I believe. When the base closes, all HNL pilots will be displaced to LAS. The 4 or 5 that went were all volunteers, they badly wanted the 757.

Best guess is either a Jacksonville domicile -or- a Destin domicile for FL, probably another midwest base too. But I would bet on JAX. But there are a lot of people who want it I think. If they only put one airplane there you can see the problem, only 6 FO's would be based there and schedules who knows.

As you point out, if you get one aircraft type and the base you want has the other type, you can see the problem there as well. Although, if you do make it to your preferred base and they change airplane types, you will be protected in base.

In our class of 40, nobody under 35 got the airbus I believe. It was originally 20 airbus, 20 md80, then they offered the 757 and I think only MD80 pilots chose to change to the 757.