Originally Posted by
1215
Guess I should’ve clarified:
1) Sitting on CJOs from both with a UAL class date approximately 30-90 days sooner than when DL would have a class available.
2) My wife will make more than I will till I’m 8-10 years up the pay scales. Can’t move or don’t want to move is an irrelevant semantic. We’ll be in Charleston for the next decade at least.
3) I like the first pancake so I guess that makes me part of the 15%. Or you need to be better at making pancakes.
The conventional wisdom is take the first class date available. Since I’m sitting on two offers within a short span of time, it makes the decision a little more difficult, since both offer many unique positives.
You could be done with initial training at UAL before your DL class date even arrives. I did have a few people either in my class or classes around me (that I knew personally) who left UAL for DL, but solely because they lived in ATL. It was 100% domicile related.
May as well start at UAL and then move to DL if you want to. You never know if something causes a slow/stoppage in hiring during those 90 potential days (unlikely, but stranger things have happened).
It sounds to me like you kind of want to end up at Delta, but there’s no harm starting at United and going from there.
Just looking at the ALPA Jumpseat finder, CHS to Newark has about 4 flights a day (Airbus during the week, mostly, mix on Weekends). Dulles is bad. ORD is pretty meh. Atlanta has like 6-7 flights, though, and I guess you could drive it in a pinch?
So…..