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02-05-2019 | 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by RhinoBallAuto

Because living there will cost you your first born....and no one likes commuting

Living in any of our junior bases will be expensive.

I’d bet the bottom captains will stay about where it is now. Narrowbody reserve sucks, and commuting to reserve pretty much distroys any QOL.

Everyone I know who has enough seniority to have some QOL in the right seat doesn’t want anything to do with Being on reserve as a captain.

02-05-2019 | 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Buzzlightyear

It’s the red eyes. The flying there blows.

What ever do you mean? On the 737, only 43% of our trips in LA are red-eyes!

02-05-2019 | 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by eppnet

What make LAX so junior? Why are guys able to upgrade in 5 years?

At almost every airline the hubs in the "corners" of the country (Florida, Northeast, California) are generally junior to begin with as they offer the highest cost of living and/or longest commutes. Add to that the Retirement wave is beginning to hit AA.

Folks will be upgrading in 3 years sometime in 2020-2021.

02-05-2019 | 09:38 AM

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I have another theory that since roughly half of the new hires are flow-throughs, a good portion of them will have already established families and other roots in DFW or the east coast. So flow-throughs, on average, will probably prefer to be based no farther west than DFW. That leaves military and street hires as people who’d potentially want LAX, and probably not that many. As this group starts to upgrade, I bet LAX will continue to be the junior base.

I’m often wrong though...

02-05-2019 | 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Surprise

From what I've seen of the awards, the junior base is the one that has a bunch of upgrades in it. This last round, PHL added a bunch. Could be LGA, or MIA, or LAX next time. Seems it ebbs and flows. Either way, it's refreshing to see the movement, it wasn't that long ago that there were 25 year FOs.

02-05-2019 | 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by kme9418

I was based at LAX as a new hire 320 FO for the last 7 months (DFW as of 31 Jan). I checked my logbook and I've done only 2 redeyes at American Airlines.

Jul, Aug, Dec-long call
Sep-volunteer TDY short call in PHL
Oct, Nov, Jan-lineholder

On the 737 on LC at LAX I did them weekly. Once I bid SC with early RAPs I did very few.

02-05-2019 | 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Surprise

I’d wager that a large chunk of military guys want DFW too. Many Air Force pilots get based in TX at some point in their career. There are two UPT bases plus the PIT base, so some meet their wives there. Most become residents for tax purposes, and some are drawn back for taxes or their spouses family.

02-07-2019 | 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by beernutt

Delta guy here with a question and request-

Wondering what the most junior airbus captain seniority in LAX is. Additionally it would be great if someone could provide a copy of the current AA seniority list.

A friend says he can hold it as a late 99 US hire. Just curious.

Thanks

Yes, lets give a list of 14,000 names and birthdates to some random guy on the internet. I mean, you say you are a Delta guy but you could be just a bot