Originally Posted by
gloopy
These days there's almost no such thing as a "senior base" compared to not that long ago. For a while it took years to hold the plug in SEA, LAX and even MSP. ATL was even hard to get for years in some narrow body categories.
These days "junior" means can you get it as a new hire or at least within the first year?
Short answer? Yes NYC is the "most junior" but new hires can and sometimes do get almost every base depending on when they're hired either first assignment or within a year. Always within 2 as far as I'm aware.
Pretty much every new hire class since Covid has had multi-bases on it.
SEA and LAX are extremely junior now. Pretty much everywhere is. At least to get in. Building your seniority to 50% is a different story. Now you’ll pretty much get whatever narrowbody base you want in 1 or 2 months of this new bidding system. No stopping that until hiring slows and growth slows or retirements stop.