Originally Posted by
C340
Lets say I get a job offer this Friday and become a WB FO commuting from PDX to do global reserve in SFO or DEN or LAX. Could you take a stab at which of those three bases and which aircraft type (if I even have a say in that) would provide the best QOL?
The 777 going to new hires train has left the station. Pilots on property for 6 months were unable to get it on the last couple vacancies. You may have a chance of getting EWR 787 FO in indoc as it has been offered every once in a while, or get NB and get it or SFO 787 FO in a subsequent vacancy. If you get WB in SFO via this route, you will be commuting to reserve for a very long time. So to answer your question, you MAY get 787 WB in SFO eventually, then your QOL commuting to reserve will be bad. You won't hold WB in DEN or LAX your first year and by then, so many things may have changed it is unpredictable to give you a read on how QOL would be.
756 SFO and LAX on the other hand go more junior (756 SFO sometimes offered to new hires) and are not Global Reserve, just Basic Reserve in those bases.