reserve here is significantly better than most regionals. Our rules, for the most part, are pretty good and in lower flying months ( like February) you may actually get the most QOL bidding reserve if you can reliably sit LC at home. If you can sit SC at home it can be a no brainer in shoulder months.

 

Not necessarily, reserve here is a pretty good gig. I've been on reserve most of my time at Delta, half by choice - I'm a Captain and I have much more schedule flexibility on reserve. I also live in base.

 

And, if you’re able to respond quickly, even being junior, and GS are flying (category dependent), flying GS on reserve Xdays means more money and less work than flying a regular line.

Yes, that‘s a “compound-if,” but when it works you’ll seen senior pilots on reserve and junior ones forced into lines. YMMV

 

Why is everyone shocked by that drop? The AE had openings in almost every base and airplane (domestically). They just exhausted all of their NYC slots so these next few classes are going to hit the jackpot until next AE posts. Congrats on nice timing. Then again if you were hired into NYC, you'll get a bid out soon when this AE posts anyways. So don't worry.

 

Ya man, bidding reserve as a senior dude who lives in base is about as good as it gets. There are some things I'd like changed wrt reserve, but that could be said about anything. You're right, we've seen junior guys forced into a line more than a few times. Even when I wasn't forced into a line, I could almost always get a line as a bottom 10% WB B.



Because, at least in the last 7ish year, it's never happened. Happy to see it! Smart on their part as they can smooth out the training across the fleets by not handcuffing themselves to particular numbers per jet. Having the base choices is a nice addition to the drop.

 

Does anyone know how many are in the 1/11 class? Must be pretty big.

 

I was not expecting a SEA bid. Let alone 2. Gives me hope I will get my home base right off the bat.

 

52


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Where 1% relative seniority is Most Senior and 100% is Most Junior. Accurate as of this last bid; a pilot who was 50% overall in the company would be:

ATL 61.5% (in other words a 12% penalty if you want ATL)
NYC 40% (or a 10% bonus if you can get to NYC)
DTW 52.3%
MSP 48%
SLC 40.5%
LAX 54.5%
SEA 45%

There are many ways to look at the data and this includes widebodies that probably aren't realistically on any new hire's radar. The Narrow-body fleets, particularly the 320, have brutal schedules. Resultingly the 330, 767-400 and A350 right seats go senior (in many cases) to the 717, 220, 320, 737 left seats.

Also, there are still some odd wrinkles. In MSP the 320 is considerably more senior than the 737 even though the 737 seems to have better trips and pays a tiny fraction more. The 320 is an all-around better airplane, but not good enough to explain the seniority inversion.

 

Hard tail or full suspension? Any pointers for a newbie looking to buy a hardtail? Salsa Timberjack 29er is what I'm leaning towards if I can find one in stock.