Originally Posted by
P8ASW
Interested in Frontier primarily for the MCO base. Curious how senior it is and a guess of how long it would take to get there. What kind of trips are to be expected out of there? Looks like APC is showing roughly a 4 year time to upgrade, do you expect this to stay the same or change significantly?
Thanks!
First of all, coming to an airline for a base is a bad idea... they open and close a lot... mco will probably be around awhile but who knows at this place... if closing mco and opening another domicile saves them a nickel, wave bye bye to Disney world...
The 7th to last person on the entire seniority list is an mco fo so if you got hired, you’d probably get it fairly quickly...
Most of the trips are turns... then 4 days, 3 days, 2 days... there are some very lucrative 4 days and pretty good turns... there’s also a lot of garbage involving red eyes... there can be 1 premium trip or 10, depending on the severity of the ineptitude at 4545 airport way that day...
I heard from the mco chief 15 months ago that he was told by the big wigs that mco was to double in size the next year to two years... if anything, it’s gotten smaller with the opening of phl...
The flying used to be the best in the whole system in my opinion... now the drop grids are jammed with garbage san, las, sju and den red eyes that are 3 day trips worth between 10-14 hours... there’s a few dip$hits in mco but overall it’s a pretty laid back base with a lot of good pilots and some decent FAs