Originally Posted by
apex7
Been lurking for a while and have a CJO from UA and AA. Would be commuting for both. Just looking for some more information regarding equipment and base seniority. If anyone at UA could answer these questions I think it may be useful to a lot of hopefuls.
Also wanted to ask how the schedules have been? Are you able to drop reserve days/trips even in these times. If you could list it by DOH that would be helpful.
Any information would be appreciated. More specifically interested in ORD or DC. But I’ll take what I can get. QOL over pay for me so just looking for the best fit and trying to set my expectations.
Base:
Equipment:
Date of Hire:
Most junior line holder in base:
Average Days off:
Commutable trips:
Average pairing length:
Able to drop trips:
You can be a 777 or 787 FO as a new hire and a 737 or Airbus Captain in 2 years in numerous bases. I think that’s really the advantage United has right now. We are adding 550 planes in 5 years, 200 of those are replacing RJ flying bringing that to mainline. Whatever we have going on now will likely be much better in a few years.
Just 4 years ago this guy came on here trashing United because his CJO was after Southwest’s and all he wanted to do was be based in Denver. So he took the job with Southwest because someone told him it took 20 years to be a Captain in Denver (not true). Junior Captain in Denver is 3 years seniority right now.
So trying to judge based on “now” isn’t always the best way to look at things.