Originally Posted by Airhoss

When the SHTF and I got bounced off the left seat of the bus I could hold right seat 757 or 320 period, end of story! I could no longer hold right seat on the 747-400 or the 777.

It was a long fall. DEN went stupid senior in the right seat of the Bus and the 757 because they had shut down the 727 and the several years later the 737 so many of those guys slipped over to the right seat of the only remaining two airplanes in DEN.

Here is the run down . I was hired in Sept. 1997 did 3 years in the right seat of the 300 (737-300-500) went to the right seat of the 777 as a line holder in 2000. I spent a year on the line in the 777. In 2001 I got hired as a PI on the 777 and moved to DEN. In 2003 I got bounced out of TK and went back to the right seat of the 300 in DEN. In 2004 I got recalled to TK on the 777. Later that year I got bounced out again and went to the right seat of the 320 in DEN. In 2006 I got recalled to TK on the 777.

In 2008 I left TK and took a Captain bid on the 320 in LAX, several months later I was surplussed but hung on to the left seat for 21 months by putting in one bid and one bid only on the surplus. I put in DEN 737 F/O knowing that they were shutting down the fleet. After the last 737 went away they got me with a 757 F/O bid in DEN. I spent just under 5 years as one of the bottom 5 guys on the SOB. In 2015 I got hired as a 76T Instructor at TK. Several months later the 777 fleet was picked me up as an instructor. I left TK in May of this year on an A-320 Capt bid in DEN.

I’ve been here 22 years. I’ve been around the block several times. If I wanted and or needed your career advice I assure you I’d have asked for it. But thank you anyway.