Originally Posted by V4LKYR1ExONE

Training footprint of approximately 10 weeks. They are currently filling May classes.

I forget exactly how many block hours they had allotted this month but I recall he said it was 75-80% pre-COVID numbers.

Reserve and upgrade times are unpredictable. Some people with over a year on payroll are reserve, but keep in mind the COVID hiring freeze stagnated progress in all respects. I saw months of reserve at my last company -in the pre COVID pilot shortage era- despite being promised a line out of IOE. Everywhere will have some reserve, and I doubt it’ll be predictable at all. Reserve is a rough experience no matter the company, and especially for commuters. 3 year FOs are bidding to upgrade now, that timeframe will shrink as the majors start hiring and pull Captains from regionals again.

Dayton is the senior base and is likely to stay that way. Philly apparently doesn’t have a lot of action or good crashpad options for sitting reserve. DC has good lines and decent pads, CLT is flying about 60% of total operations so that’s where most of the flying is and crashpads are good there too. DC and CLT were identified as the junior bases.