Originally Posted by
PRS Guitars
August hire? No brainer, go to AA, you can’t compare 700 under you to what you’ll have at AA, no way to know. DFW is rapidly becoming a JR base for NB CA’s. FO’s hold it within months. I had the opposite choice to make, but at the 1.5 year mark living in a UAL hub. I wasn’t for sure going to not move like you are. I chose to stay at AA, I’m fine with it, but with hindsight would have made a different decision. Honestly anything under 1 year, I would have bailed in a heart beat. Your situation, yeah AA. You live near our Mega base, and can easily sit SC reserve from home. I flew exactly zero hours last month on SC, though I did use some sick time.
Unless you call sick for every trip, I'd say the chance of not flying on SC for the full month in DFW on a narrow body is pretty much zero. Since every other base flys through DFW, we cover broken trips from other baes all the time. I cant speak for the fo's, but as a ca on short call, it's very rare for me to have more than two, or three days a month I don't fly. I've timed out more than a few times, and usual SC month is around 70 hours.
I believe the other narrow body bases are probably about the same, but we average 30% reserve coverage, both ca's and fo's.
On the line holder side, for December in DFW (737) 41% of our pairings were 4 day trips, and just over 5% were 5 day's.
I didn't look at January yet, but my fo says it looks about the same.