Originally Posted by
DMH1967
I interviewed this past week for DEC, and I'm pretty confident I'll get an offer. I live in SoCal, and am typed in the E175 already, so would chose that aircraft. Having looked at the seniority map for bases, it shows the lowest CA at LAX as 03/22. That gives a reference point, but there are other factors that impact time to getting into base more. At the major I retired from, when I bid to LAX I was 18 months junior to the bottom Captain there. 5 years later I was still 18 months junior to the bottom Captain, because there was zero movement at the base, and it took me 11 years at the company to upgrade, vs 3-5 years had I stayed at one of the junior bases.
So my question for anyone who might know is how much movement is there out of LAX that might leave an opening I could get into quickly? Is there any movement out of SAN that might open that up, or is it lifers who will never leave, and no growth?
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You do understand that as a DEC you are junior to every other CA with a date of hire before you, right? Meaning that every FO upgrading to CA in the next two years or so will be senior to you? I mean, you might get LAX right out of the box - it could happen - but if you don’t then pretty much the whole damn seniority list of CAs for the next two years will be senior to you so movement at any of the individual bases isn’t even an issue. You could wait two years and still be behind a new hire in intro right now who has yet to fly a turbojet aircraft.
Didn’t you get that brief?