Originally Posted by shrsailplanes

I was 5th senior in my class. So that means 5th oldest. My previous aircraft has auto-throttle, VNAV and fly-by-wire and I had 1750hrs in it. When asked during indoc I expressed interest in the Latitude or Longitude. (I have no idea why they bothered asking) The bulk of my class got the Latitude including people with zero jet time. I got the Sovereign. There were five aircraft assigned at the end of indoc: Latitude, CL350, Phenom, Sovereign and XLS. I think they could easily use a class bidding system with so many fleets available especially when fleet has everything to do with earnings. Being locked in an airplane that is nearing end of life and they aren’t taking new owners in it can be a real drag especially when I bump into people that were in my class telling me how they may break $200K this year and they are on the same schedule.