Originally Posted by
Shiner
The latest vacancy saw a lot of movement of bases on the FO side. New hires that are still in training were awarded DFW and ORD (and guys that want LGA will obviously stay there). If you want to be in a specific base, the 145 is currently getting guys to any base before they finish training.
As for time on reserve, this is only an educated guess, but avoid ORD if you want off reserve. Someone on Eagle Lounge ran the numbers on the vacancy and said about 65 FO's are slated to leave ORD and were not replaced. Many of the Captain's flowing to AA out of ORD were not replaced, upgrades were almost all DFW and LGA. ORD is expected to shrink, which is not good for time to hold a line. Time to hold a line will be fastest in LGA, then DFW, followed by ORD.
For ORD, this last vacancy saw about 65 FOs moving to other bases or up to the captain seats. That iss about the number of FOs on reserve, plus new hires coming up to Chicago. What this means to me is we could be losing even more flying in ORD, Chicago will now be the junior new hire base, or we will have zero reserves available everyday and everyone will hold a line (this would be a disaster, ORD cant run without 7 people on standby everyday). Also, I expect them to keep the FOs in Chicago that were awarded other bases until more new hires come in below them.