Originally Posted by
SquawkIdent
It would be pretty quick, probably a matter of a few months, particularly if you're on the 737. SFO 737 is very junior and almost always has unfilled seats on vacancy bids.
If you a get 737 FO assignment in another base during BI, you can bid out of that base and over to SFO whenever there's a vacancy bid (which are running monthly now). Just for example, on the vacancy bid that closed 3/15 there were over a dozen unfilled seats on SFO 737 FO so even the most junior newhire could have held it.
Dumb question, but if you just want to change bases and you're in the same seat and equipment, wouldn't that be accomplished through a base trade as opposed to a vacancy bid? Or just submit both?