Originally Posted by
TOGALOCK
As with anything it depends on fleet and base. SFO and EWR are most junior. A very quick glance at the December bid awards shows the most junior line holder to be around 8 months on property for SFO 787. SFO 777 as well as both 777 and 787 in EWR were around a year and a half. This is, of course, skewed a bit because of the holiday month. Also, as with any PBS system, it will depend on how you bid and what you’re willing to give up to get a line. Lastly, there was just a large displacement bid for EWR 777, so that will change the landscape for a bit as well.
I would suspect that you’d get a line faster as a new hire wide body FO than you would as a new hire captain. Also, at this time, any newhire getting a captain award will spend a year in the right seat before they upgrade. So, depending on their base, could be a line holder for some of their first year.
FWIW, there haven’t been any widebody spots offered to newhires in 7-8 months.
This is technically true, but widebody slots have still been going extremely junior on vacancies. New Hires may not be able to get WBFO on Day 1, but it’s still fairly common for the first plane a NH gets trained on to be WB. It depends on your timing of Indoc v vacancy.