This made my eyebrow raise. That's over a 100 lower. What am I missing?

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Buses going away and max deliveries delayed?

https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/2938506-post80.html

I think Thrill answered it

Cut routes that aren’t a home run even if the planes are always full, give more flying to Skywest, retire airbus and downgrade, pull back to Seattle. The usual.

Surprised at the lack of people bidding out of SF and LA Bus that ended up leading to 5 invol displacements. Any VX Captain including/prior to 2012 could have held PDX or SEA by now. Have we reached the limit of all the VX guys who wanted to bid SEA or PDX by now? Or, is it that people are waiting for a final fleet decision before making their final bidding move?

Probably a bit of both, the junior lines on the 737 are still not as good as junior lines on the Airbus. I went back and forth a couple bids ago and was luckily able to bid back to the Bus to avoid what woulda been reserve on the 737. Flying seems to shift quite a bit between bases and fleets so it’s near impossible to make an educated guess on what to do.

Why does this company make base switching so gddamn difficult? Next bid fall 2020...how much money does it cost them for one pilot to switch bases on the same aircraft type?

It probably has something to do with how powerful moving days can be. I knocked off two 4 day trips the last time I used them. The only downside is that you only get pay protected to min credit.

The opportunity to switch bases means a vacancy must exist in that base, which means it must be put out for bid to all pilots, which invites training costs, which are feared and loathed by the people footing the bill for them.....


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I am a SEA-SFO commuter that is waiting for a fleet decision. I flew the 737 25 years ago and it was old, loud and cramped then. It hasn’t changed any since then. That plus being a line holder in SFO and a bubble boy in SEA, will keep me right where I am.