Interesting. I believe UA/CO opened bases in the others bases. The company said they wanted to match the right airplanes to the right routes soon after the merger.

Heard the same thing but there will be US air 319 ORD/MIA/DFW bases largest to smallest.

18-20 new hires seems low to me.

Also take what you hear from the Sim guys with the grain of salt. I've found training guys have the biggest mouth at telling tall tales.

With fences, SLI's, JCBA's, etc., how long would it take someone hired at US now to get to LAX?

Too many variables in that for me to even give a WAG.

Understood, what about PHX?

I hear they are short staffed right now, but no plans to add pilots there.

The MOU changes a lot of the restrictions that US pilots had in their contract and who could fly what aircraft, block hours, min fleet, etc. The company says they want to match aircraft to demand pretty quickly, so there could be big changes coming.

The east just published a bid for Nov, it was pretty much a wash with about 14 captain vacancies, but a reduction in F/Os and total head count-reduced head count by about the same number leaving the bid for retirement, supv etc.

Going by what has happened historically, I would say best case 2 years worst case 7 years.

Wait to see what happens with UA and CAL. They are similar to what AA and US will do.

But if I had to guess it will be a slotting without fences domestically and 7 year fences on the wide bodies.

Well, I guess I'll add to the rumor mill:

What I've heard is 7 year fences on the widebodies. International westward feed out of PHX with LAX doing expanded transcon. Look up, "American Airlines A321 transcon," on the web. Pretty cool. Interesting post earlier about the 777 in PHL, hadn't heard that.

PHX is understaffed, reserves I've talked to flying into days off. A guess would be that the company is not putting more pilots into PHX, because they want to right size it after the merger, but what do I know.

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The 777 in PHL may come to pass. We still have the PHL-Beijing route authority. We just don't have the equipment to do it. That's just one of the rumors I've heard.

It could take a while, I'm an AWA 03' hire and just hoping I don't get bumped out east after the dust settles.

G