Originally Posted by
Setspeed
I got super lucky and MBE closed was a week after I got hired, finished training almost 3 months later and the MBE was effective the week I finished. So, potentially you never commute if you hit it the first roll, but probably an outlier.
On the flip side of this, I got hired the Wednesday after a vacancy closed (5 days prior) and then they stopped hiring into my base of choice for four months. Couldn’t MBE due to being the plug before the next vacancy closed 3 months later. Awarded my base in that vacancy, and now locked out of MBE due to pending status change even though they started hiring into the base again. For me it was 8 months from DOH to base of choice and ended up commuting for four of those post-OE. I also had like 6 weeks off between indoc and sims…no idea what the wait is these days.
That’s probably about as long as it would possibly take at this point, maybe 9 months if you are super unlucky. Just sharing my example to point out there could be an outlier in either direction.