Originally Posted by tallpilot

Exactly. It's massively different and airframe matters too. My experience on the Bus in CLT was 1% upward movement every month when I got hired to complete stagnation (literally 0% relative movement) since the first hiring pause. I was a line holder now I'm back on reserve. Will it be ok in a year or two? Almost certainly. Does it suck ass now? Yes. Just like it does for Suss because of his particular situation.

If the OP wants 'flexibility', (s)he should bid a junior airplane in a junior base and move there, otherwise expect several years of NOT being off needed days at least several times per month. Hopefully a bunch more airplanes will show up and rapid movement will return but it's absurd and frankly terrible advice to suggest that everything will be roses. It's still probably a very good career move to come here but it isn't 2022 and what happened then should not be communicated to new hires.