Captain Seniority Hire Date By Crew Base:
DFW: January 19, 2018
IAD: December 1, 2017
IAH: April 13, 2018
PHX: December 8, 2016
SDF: April 27, 2018
from the looks of that, you have captains upgrading into DFW, IAH and SDF with hire dates not 5-6 months old
EDIT: given, those hire dates are probably hires who came on with 1,000 hours 121 - as would be the case with me[/QUOTE]
If you are keen to avoid LGA and ORD, and thus a commute to reserve at those bases, DEC at Mesa sounds much better. 6 months seems like a fair upgrade time given you’d have to learn a new aircraft and procedures. At Envoy you can be displaced out of DFW to LGA, but that can’t happen at Mesa. Yes, get ready for a lot of reserve, but it’s reserve while living in base.
I suppose you could be displaced to SDF (or any other CRJ base?). But if you are in IAH, it’s yours to keep as long as Mesa doesn’t open another E175 base, which IAH is the only one right now. Mesa folks please correct me if I am wrong.