Originally Posted by
WhyIFly
Worst case scenario...possibly.
It would most certainly be April or May, and training (including IOE) will take at least 3 months. For others, it is much closer to 5 months Someone hired in the first class of October would not be finished with training until after the New Year. At that point, yes, they would likely spend Jan/Feb/Mar based somewhere else. That is absolutely the worst case scenario.
That just isn’t true. There are people who are still waiting until December for the vacancy bid we had in July. No, it isn’t really common but it happens. Worst-case scenario is someone hired in October finishes training right around, or just after, the new year. Then, they get a June effective date, and they are in some other base for Jan-May. I’m not saying that’s likely but if we are setting the floor, that’s the floor.
Again, if someone gets a desirable base on the fleet that is in their desired base, they could easily do a mutual base exchange (LGA and MIA had ~25 each trying to actively leave last I checked) and they could easily be in LGA/MIA before they are out of training. Just depends how the cards play out on MBE.