Kinda, with seniority. Depending on the month and status you either bid 3-6 or 4-7 day blocks. You are allowed to bid one solo day off per month. So you could bid 12 to 14 days of reserve in a 13-15 day stretch. The catch is “coverage days”. Days the company basically junior mans you during the PBS run. Hard/impossible to predict where they pop up and blow up you best laid plans… coverage days can easily creep up to the top 20% of reserve bidders some months. Junior guys could have almost every day be coverage day, which actually works out great sometimes since December 5th and December 25th have the same value to algorithm if it was forced to choose

How long to hold PHX now?

we’ll find out in 5 weeks

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New hires are getting it day 1. I did not get it day 1 but I was able to transfer before training was finsihed.

The caveat to that is every new hire class drop is different, and it depends on both how senior you are in your class (which is based on age). There's another poster on here who lives in PHX but got stuck on the 737 because of less Bus slots available in their class, but some person in a subsequent class could get either the Bus in PHX or just on the Bus and transfer in. The other poster I just mentioned will have to wait for his seat lock to expire AND whatever the company can withhold him for.

All that said, none of this is a reason not to come to AA, just realize that getting a particular airplane and base combination could be trickly, unless you want the 737 in NYC, which is most likely always available to you.

how likely would PHL AB be for early 40’s
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I turned 40 at indoc and picked 23rd out of 53 new hires. I got the last of 16 available Airbuses. I'd say Airbus is likely for you, PHL maybe less likely but a transfer to PHL might be possible a few months down the road. Granted I'm new and know as close to nothing as you can get.

Very high chance of AB, the caveat would be a class drop that had mostly 737 slots, which has happened before, like those poster above where it was 70% 737.

PHL rerquires that being offered in class, which seems less likely, but you're likely to get it on the next vacancy (which happen 4 times a year), and almost for sure on the vacancy after that.

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