Originally Posted by Stayontarget

Since sailplane was asking about this in another thread….

This is data gathered from people who have finished or are very near finishing IOE and have been able to bid for their schedule via our bidding system. As you can see PHX is showing a touch more senior than other bases in this regard currently. However, our SL shows all persons in the Oct class getting PHX or Vegas. There is zero doubt that many of those people want out of PHX or Vegas and will be awarded other bases on the coming bid that is open right now. The delay between bid, award, and start date is currently as such;

Nov 9: Bid opens
Nov 23: Bid closes
Nov 24th-ish: Bid award
March 2: Effective start date for award

Since you mention you are coming from another industry I will assume you are older and therefore have greater seniority in your class that begins Nov 28th. If for some reason you don’t get PHX as your primary base, which I find unlikely, you will almost certainly be in that base by April. Which means after training you will have spent a grand total of two months commuting to, I would guess, LAS since it is the other junior base.

As other have mentioned base bids come out every month with each new class. Delay to start in your newly awarded base is about 4 months. And if for some reason hiring stopped tomorrow we have quarterly base trade potential.