Hi everyone,

It looks like ~ 15% of the unfilled vacancies from 1810v are 756 on the west coast, perhaps from some folks bidding off it after their 2 year seat lock expired due to longer reserve times/QOL. I assume not too much has changed in regard to the 756 fleet since this thread was last commented on 8 months ago, but wanted to double check...

1. Is reserve on the 756 still running 1 to 1.5ish years in SFO and MUCH much greater than the 2 year seat lock every where else?

2. I’ve searched for “Visiting reserve” and other key words but haven’t found much about GLOBAL RESERVE. Are all the 756 pilots on global reserve system wide or is G.R primarily for the EWR folks who are doing a lot of transatlantic. I understand it is 1-6 day off block and then your other reserve days/days off can be adjusted on the fly? How does it work in a nutshell?

3. There was an article that had the average age of the 757-200s at 21.3 years and perhaps they’d serve ~25+ years which would take it to 2023. Is there any chatter on when the fleet will retire and is the fleet plan staying steady or starting to shrink since last year?

4. In your experience with shrinking/retiring fleet at UAL, do most of the senior folks stay on the aircraft until the end with the bottom guys getting displaced off as aircraft leave? If you’re bumped off the bottom, are you displaced to train into whatever aircraft you can hold going forward?

Thanks for your time and replies in advance. I appreciate it.

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