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Old 08-23-2025 | 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by PilotJ3
In my previous airline. Alpa run the inter base transfers at the beginning of the month. You would think people will transfer constantly, there were months were nobody swapped positions. Once you’re in the base you want to be, you won’t want to move. So inter base transfers occurred mostly by very very Jr people (NH mostly) and they were less than 6 people most of the time.

If you have an AE that you need training, it doesn’t matter because if there’s no open positions, the category still the same size. Now, you could bid same equipment in another base and then try to get a base transfer, if someone wants to transfer.

But if you catch my drift, usually base transfer occurs within very JR people, because once you’re in the base you want to be, you won’t move.
Rings true.
When I was a new hire I was given ATL while I lived in NYC. There were many pilots in classes immediately before and after mine who lived in ATL but got NYC.

It took over 6 months until the was an AE. It was so frustrating we couldn't just trade places.
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