Originally Posted by
arbatistoni
any advise for someone who wanted to have ORD as a base? I start class the 24th. Should i try to get the CRJ? I hear the reserve times are worse than the 145 but i don't want to end up in KLGA. Cant afford, and don't want to commute. I guess i could try to get the 175 if its offered, but the extra bonus money would go a long way for me.
Unless something has changed very recently, when you pick equipment and base on first day of class, the 145 takers are given the choice of ORD or LGA all the way until the 145 slots are no longer available. So as long as the 145 is still up for graps when your turn comes, you’ll be able to pick ORD 145. I would not pick ORD CRJ if it were me. ORD 175 might not be bad with a significant portion of that group trying to bid back to DFW but I really don’t know. If it were me today, I’d pick any base 145 that was available and vacancy bid back to where I wanted to be if the initial base wasn’t what I wanted.