Originally Posted by
6ppc
First Post,
Interview on 6-22 and CJO on 6-23, they expressed class date would be late Aug or slightly after and they would try to give me 2 to 4 weeks notice. I live equally between IAD and CLE, much less traffic to CLE, but understand CLE is more senior, to what extent and exactly what that means I'm not sure. I understand 737 is prob best to try move bases and COL for juniors.
Trying to plan for commute, is there a list of what aircraft are located at each base?
If you want to be in CLE someday, then the 737 is the only option there. The DCA domicile covers IAD, DCA, and BWI. The offices are in IAD and most of the trips start and end there, but especially on the 737 and 320 you can get trips out of DCA and BWI.
To put the seniority in perspective, we have almost 15000 pilots on the seniority list (that number includes a good number of inactive pilots on list on Leaves, mil , medical, etc) and the below number represent the seniority as of last months roster.
Junior line holder seniority for 737 FO for July bidding:
CLE 13256
DCA 13867
Junior bid holder for 737 CA
CLE 9276
DCA 12335 (actually went unfilled on last bid so anyone off of probation could have been awarded the position)
Junior line holder seniority for 737 CA for July bidding
CLE 7462
DCA 9675
So you can see that you would actually be a line holder as a Captain in DCA before you could even get the bid to be the most junior Captain in CLE.