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What are Allegiants junior crew bases ?

Whats the hire date of the most junior CVG FO ? how long would it take to hold this base if hired today ?

skydisaster

This is a difficult question at any airline, but it is almost impossible to answer at Allegiant. With our numerous small bases, the length of time to get a specific base, varies greatly over time. You can hold most bases within a year. Some bases can take up to 18-24 months depending on which airplane you are assigned.

Currently the most junior CVG FO is a September 2016 hire. I suspect that CVG will be slightly faster for someone hired today because of IND opening in February.


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tom11011

Probably the most junior base is Oakland assuming you get the airbus.

We will only have 2 MD80 bases very shortly, LAS and SFB.

ecam

Junior FO bases vary, but LAX, OAK, FLL and PGD go to Bus new hires often. LAS for the 80.

Antiskid

After reading through older Allegiant threads, the schedule doesn't seem to be commuter friendly. Although I could not find anything on OAK/Airbus specifically. Can anyone provide basic schedule info for OAK?

labbats

Why put a square peg in a round hole? Why apply to the only airline where you can be home every night just so you can commute?

Those of us who have done it were unhappy. The VBD base is likely to shrink away to only the senior commuters when we go all Airbus.

BlueHenFR8Dawg

Oh, but they're out there. Stupid is, as stupid does..

CAirBear

OP, If you are based in one of our large bases and your home is served by Allegiant (as well as other airlines) it isn't that bad. I'll give you an example.

Been here not even one year. SFB based and on RSV. M-Thu 5am RSV all month. Flight home is on company metal at 330 on Thursday afternoon. Flight back to work Sun night at 6pm on company.

As for those that think commuters must be absolutely miserable, I beg to differ.

I rent a room out of a house just north of Sanford with another Allegiant guy and his wife. He is a friend from a previous airline. I have a car in base and hang out with other friends at the beach/golf unless I get called. So far I haven't done anything this month. I'm also on the Bus which makes working RSV an entirely differnent job. My housemate is on the -80. It's night and day differnt for us. Wow.

In essence I have 2 lives. I have my work life where I live in FL during the week, then I have my real life at home. But trust me when I tell you my life isn't "miserable" because I don't "live in base".

With all that said, you have to be smart if your gonna commute. You can live in podunk airport with 2 regional flights a day and be based in BLI. It's not going to work. Period.

If your based in a large Allegiant base, with plenty of other airline traffic and you have a one leg commute on both company metal and OALs, it's not that difficult.

P.S I know literally no one that would willfully want to live in Oakland. If you have lots of one leg options commute there Until you can get into a much more desirable city/base.

labbats

Glad you are happy. Just beware that with the single fleet will go excess reserves and the lifestyle you enjoy.

Machaca

Curious about this...isn't the company overstaffing the reserves once the transition is complete? The AB side seems horrendously overstaffed now, and since there allegedly won't be a one for one transition, aren't we looking at a 4 to 4.5 crews per airframe rather than the meager 3 to 3.5 we see on the -80? The impression I'm getting is that those of us on the bottom 3rd of the base list are looking at perma-reserve.