Originally Posted by
pr1m3
That is a good question, which I'm sure is likely answered with "it depends" I imagine. I am in the same boat as you and trying to acquire as much information as possible before jumping in head first.
Another question I have concerning Envoy is domicile. Is DFW "easy" to get for a domicile for new hires currently? I'd like to homestead in DFW and of course not commute if possible.
Additionally, how is it that Envoy projects upgrade within 2.5 years but currently the most junior CA have DOH in 2011? By my math that is closer to 6 years, the same amount of time they foresee flow to AAL.
Last question first. The number of new hires between 2012-2015 is less than the number of pilots in 2011. 250ish pilots were hired between both of those time periods. We have had a lot of stagnation over the past 5 years but now we are upgrading about 100 every three months. So it's only going to take about 8 months to upgrade four years of pilots. On the last bid we had 2012 new hires upgrade so we are about to see a steep drop in upgrade time this year.
Commuting on reserve is like you said hellish. No way to mitigate the pain of it. With reserve not being commutable it is brutal. Some people can make it commutable but depending on where you commute from makes it impossible to commute in the day before.
Good news in reserve time is dropping like a rock right now.