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Can anyone please tell me what bases new hires are being placed into the right seat..

Also, if you live at your base, can you tell me what the QOL is...

Are there out and backs?

Thank you!

As far as getting hired into the right seat as a new hire, you would be based in Anchorage Alaska. The QOL would be reserve from 12am (midnight) to noon. I do not think that there are many (if any) out and backs in ANC, and if there is they would go to the guys who live in Anchorage with seniority. QOL would happen much quicker in Memphis in the back of the 727. Waht is you husbands name?

I think the next class will have B727 SOs!

No out and backs from Anchorage...unless you consider the ANC-EWR, 25 hours in EWR, then EWR-ANC an out and back.

Living in domicile anywhere, you will have a higher QOL than a commuter...hands down. More days off (or at least more hours off), flexibility in bidding your schedule, drive from your home to the airport (as opposed to driving from a hotel or crashpad), not having to jumpseat in then operate a trip, etc., etc.

Some from the next training class are also going straight into the right seat of the 727 in MEM. But who knows what the company has planned in the coming months?

Someone should point out to the nice lady that going right to a window seat is NOT the pilot panacea it might appear to be.

Due to seniority, hubby goes RIGHT to the bottom of the list in that seat and is junior to lots of other people in more junior seats . .who will . . over time bid over to hubby's seat . .thereby holding him down for a LONG time. Can you spell s-t-a-g-n-a-t-i-o-n? Being junior on any list gives you QOL alright, and it is lousey. The only thing worse is being there forever:eek:

If you are interested in QOL. . this is not a good way to go. It would be better to see all the new guys pasted to the bottom of your 727 SO list . . thereby pushing you up so you can hold a decent schedule.

25 hours on EWR!, that's reason enough not to bid it.

Out of curiousity, where do put you in EWR for that long of a stay. I hope it isn't that Double Tree.

Sheraton Suites on Hudson in Weehawken, NJ, just north of Hoboken. Watertaxi stops here on way to piers at 38th St. Free bus from there (and back) to most places in Manhattan. Not a bad layover!

Very true. But if you choose to paste yourself to the bottom as payment for not sitting sideways, living in domicile would be the way to go. Then again, if FedEx continues to grow like we are now, he won't be sitting on the bottom for very long anyway! :cool:


Haha, yep...

I've stayed at the Brunswick Hilton, Prime Suites Secaucus, Sheraton Woodbridge, and the Sheraton Suites on the Hudson. Some have stayed in Manhattan for the longer layovers (48 hours+), but I never have. Average to better-than-average hotels in not-so-horrible areas. :eek:

I forgot to add that a lot of the Reserve A lines and junior VTO's in Anchorage are getting involuntarily converted to Reserve A+ (Reserve A period plus 6 hours).

With our 3-hour reporting status, this equates to a reserve notification between 0430L - 1630L, with trip showtimes between 0730L - 1930L. Kinda limits your daytime carousing options...:rolleyes:

Not for Memphites. It's just a back-up for us. We get the Woodbridge....