It’s no different then any other airline. It’s not some trick. When you’re hired you will bid on a base and be awarded dependant on what’s available and by seniority order during ground. Seniority is assigned amongst the class by age, oldest being most senior. Once you are awarded a base it’s yours..someone senior cannot bid it and bump you out. You can be involuntarily displaced. People keep asking about base seniority. At this point honestly no one really knows. Den is the largest base, it’s also possible it is about to shrink, but who knows...we don’t. The plan as we know it is 250 new hires this year, they have to go somewhere. That is the number I’ve been told with no Thomas cook planes. I’ve heard we are actually getting none...again, who knows. It was a reliable source, who also told me MIA was the next base two months before it was announced. If we do get any of the TC planes, then they will hire more then 250 this year.
A guess would be that you should be able to get the base you want within a few months. That’s a guess though.