Originally Posted by
Griffin1799
If you are taken as a new hire and end up in SFO, how hard is the commute from LAX? What's the QOL in SFO for a commuter? With that, what's the seat lock for new hires -- and how does the bidding out of your first base work? I'm looking to get staged out of LAX (unfortunately), and trying to figure out which airline offers the best or fastest opportunity to do that.
Hopefully you will get LAX as an initial assignment, there were 16 unfilled 737s in LAX on the last Vacancy bid, so there is a chance.
If not, getting SFO should be really easy. Then you would be eligible to bid for a lateral to LAX on any Vacancy bid that closes after you start. So, it would not surprise me at all if you had a lateral to LAX before you even finished training. Then you would request to have the lateral "activated" as soon as possible and hopefully not ever have to commute to SFO, or at least minimize the amount of time you had to do so.
Obviously there are a ton of flights between LAX and SFO, but commuting to reserve is never fun.
With all the movement that will be happening over this coming winter, I would anticipate having a new vacancy bid every month, so it will not take long at all to get back down the coast (if you don't get LAX originally)