Originally Posted by Ijustlikeflying

All good questions. Miami isn’t and probably won’t be offered to new hires for the foreseeable future. But any new hire can hold Miami or Dallas within 6months of your hire date. These are our two senior bases. If you figure 3 or more months in training, you really would only be stuck somewhere else at max maybe 4 months.

LGA E145 has been been offered to every new hire class since the base was re-opened in 2016.

If you want Miami, ensure you choose the E145, 175s currently have no plan for doing any Miami flying, they aren’t even doing any fly-through. And CRJ is only in Chicago so avoid that like the plague if you want to stay away from Chicago.

From what you stated above I would say choose LGA 145 in training, get through training and as soon as you’re on property, add a bid preference for Miami, you will most likely get it in either the first or second vacancy bid they run for that base.

Only other thing I would recommend is to get a degree, the flow here and at any of the other whollyown airlines is bad. And I wouldn’t ever rely on it. They’ve dumbed down these bachelor degree programs so much for my fellow (soal searching/can’t think for themselves) millennials that you should be just fine getting some easy degree. I’m sure you could get on with another major before this 9+ year flow works.

And one last added tip. Reserve here sucks. Whether your a guy that sat it for almost 4 years like some of us on property or guys that sat it for 1 month like most new hires today, it still sucks a big D***. So my tip is this. Go to LGA, and get a line (u will get one fast), but don’t transfer to Miami until you can hold a line there. Unless you plan to live in Miami itself, I would recommend doing what I stated above!

Congrats on your new career and best of luck to you! Great time to be a pilot. Despite all the whiny babies on these forums.