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new guy
Just to make sure I'm reading this correctly, as of today (always subject to change in the future)
-Colorado Springs followed by Detroit is the most junior base for both FO and CA on the CRJ and
-Denver followed by Chicago on the ERJ.
I know this can and will change, but when the time comes to choose a base/aircraft, I'd want to choose the one that at least presented the opportunity to upgrade and stay in the same place with the chance of it starting a relatively junior location as I'll home base at whatever the most junior is that fits these criteria.
With that, does one aircraft or base routinely get more flying hour opportunities per pilot than another? I understand you're will flying your brains out right now, but before corona, before you were having people poached, etc, was there a base out of the ones I listed or a different one that was known as a place for more flying? Thanks.
Chicago and DEN historically have the most flying. COS is a small maintenance base that they randomly just built up a month or so ago to more lines making it super junior. I wouldn't expect it to stay like that long term and not a ton of flying there. DTW almost closed after Covid and is now being built back up. For flying only sake, id say ORD makes the most sense. But that airport and living in Chicago sucks, DEN is much more enjoyable for a long term place to live. Take that for what its worth.
Both DEN and ORD aren't going anywhere for Skywest and are very junior on both the CRJ and ERJ, captain and FO.