Originally Posted by
jamesholzhauer
Why haven’t you gone to the bus? You’d be around 65%, have a decent schedule, and be at $151 vs $118. I’d take a month in JBU and being 2/3 down the list on the bus vs 1/3 down the list on the 190, personally. If I were in your shoes I’d go to the bus now and upgrade when you can on the 220 or 320.
As for 320 upgrade time in BOS for someone hired 3 years ago? Assuming you’re around 3100 now? I’d bet 3-5 more years, or when you’re around 3000/5000 on the list. Once a decent amount of 220 CA seats open, presumably in 2023, I think it will be a smaller gap in seniority than the 190 and 320 is and cause the 320 CA to go a little more junior on a percentage basis. Until then, I see a ton of senior 190 guys continuing to go over to the 320 and keeping that upgrade time/overall percentage high.
Thank you for your input.
I haven’t moved over to the Airbus mostly because I’m holding day trips/two days with a lot of broken pairings. The airbus would be mostly 3&4 days with redeyes. Lots of VDA opportunities as well as I’ve gotten more senior in this seat (no I didn’t during the labor dispute.)
Going on 4th year pay and later, the two scales start to widen even further as you indicated. I felt like 3rd year pay you can still justify staying on the 190 for QOL purposes.