Originally Posted by chihuahua

I got out of 121/flying when covid started. Want to come back but I live in Florida and would want to be able to hold MIA pretty quickly so I'd at least have the QOL of being able to drive to work, reserve or not, and be home when my trip is done. Based on reading this forum, that wouldn't happen if I got the 145 for a very long time, because even if you upgrade from the 145 to the 175, MIA is senior for CAs, while it seems possible to spend a short time in ORD or to get MIA right away if you get the 175 as a new hire FO. So it's a night and day difference for what I'd want out of life. I'd be fine being an FO till I could hold MIA CA or flowed to AA if I had the QOL of living in Florida with a base in Florida and no commuting. Besides Envoy I was interested in Breeze, but do not agree with their covid vaccination mandate, and so far AA has said they do not plan to mandate what kind of medical treatments employees should subject themselves to (my opinion, not trying to get political), so that's a plus in my view. When I started at my first regional in 2016, just about any regional would hire you as long as you didn't completely bomb the interview or show yourself to be an obvious dumbass, and it was easy to tell where you'd end up based. From the looks of it, it seems like there is still a lot of uncertainty, and hiring is only starting to ramp up, so I rather wait and see if the economy holds up well into 2022 and it possibly becomes easier to tell what you'll get out of class as it was a couple years back. Like you or someone mentioned in an earlier post, all the data that could be used to predict where you'd end up or how long it would take to hold a base got invalidated in 2020. So based on that, the only options as of now are to jump in and hope for the best, or wait a while and see where things settle and if movement actually returns and becomes consistent the way it's predicted to.