F100. By a long shot my favorite plane. Must have been designed by a pilot. Young/new Captains when I flew it. I went to 757/767 after that. What an antiquated let down.

I am waiting for an Airbus base in ORD. Unfortunately it may never come and when it does it will be wicked senior.

Did you fly the F100 at AA? I flew it at US it was my least favorite jet aircraft. Hot, loud and unreliable. It was a nice hand flying airplane and good cockpit layout and auto flight system. I’d heard AA’s were better than ours.

Unless you want Boston or Chicago eventually, bid the bus, it opens up every possible base. I know plenty of guys who refuse to bid back to the 73, but only a few who despise the bus, good luck.


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Miami. Not sure about loads and stuff to LA but I sat Long Call commuting to MIA and had zero issues. Got to where I didn't even reserve a seat until a couple days out sometimes but it can get tight if you wait until the day of/before to reserve a seat. ( A lot of no shows, still always made it on) I did both DFW - LGA and Miami. LGA is a lot longer flight and harder/expensive commute in general. A couple years ago it was all 737 which = one jumpseat. And you're in it a lot. Also Miami has the widebodies during the day.

LAX just looks like a nightmare in general with the schedules and covering those bases. I can't remember which airplane covers all three bases.. anyone?
LGA you'll get stuck with an occasional 0400 show at Newark. Well where is your crash pad? ... New York side of course. You could take the mysterious Flight attendant bus that I hear leaves at 02:30 (Sleepy yet? Yes that's a midnight thirty wake up for your central time body) or go over the night before like a safe sane person and get yourself a Hotel.. total bill? $150 ish.. That's on top of your crash pad and ubers back and forth to JFK-LGA. In other words it got expensive. Even though the Newark deals are kinda rare you will get them on the 73 if you spend a few months there.

The 737 has typically been the airplane covering all three airports in LAX (plus SAN, but that has a completely different set of rules). Although, someone did report recently they saw an Airbus trip out of ONT. Don't know if it was an anomaly or what.

That whole lga-jfk-ewr thing chaps my butt. I knew 2 cpts who had 2 crashpads, 1 on each side. Total joke we get no reimbursement for that. Nyc will always be super junior because of that crap.

Back in the day when I was the system wide plug and on eternal short call reserve on the -80 in LGA...my pad was just across the street from the USAir terminal. Lo and behold I’d get assigned EWR trips more often than not. After doing the mid town bag drag while changing 3 buses and two trains, I’d had enough. The next EWR trip I got assigned, I walked to the USAir terminal and hitched a JS ride from LGA-BOS, then promptly walked to the Continental terminal and hitched a ride on them from BOS-EWR. Total travel time, 3hrs... and I sat in First for free on both flights.

Never been more relaxed on a cross town commute :D

Flew the prop version (F50) for a few years, and flew with the son of their test pilot. Fokker took all of the old F28/F27, threw it out and designed the Fokker prop/jet-liner cockpit (the plan was to keep the cockpit the same for both prop and jet). They let the pilots decide how the cockpit should work. IMO the best designed cockpit I will ever be on, and it definitely made up for the fact that it flew like a garbage truck with flat tires. The F50 had full fadec engines on a turboprop in 1985. No prop levers, just an engine rating panel and power levers with a detent. Annunciator panel and alerting system better than A320.

How easy is to get the E190 as a new hire?
Thanks.

Is there really any base you can get that won't require getting a crash pad? Or which one can you hold long call fastest and or a line?