Originally Posted by tripled (Post 3261502)

Go for the ER and try something new; If it’s awful then bid off ASAP. This is the nice thing about working for DAL.

Originally Posted by tripled (Post 3261502)

Go for the ER and try something new; If it’s awful then bid off ASAP. This is the nice thing about working for DAL.

Originally Posted by Trip7 (Post 3261449)

Yup I would stay in the 320 and make cash til you can hold 330 or 350 which shouldn't be too long based on how things are going. 330/350 are historically 95% intl flying along with payrates that are substantially higher than the 320 compared to the 7ER. IMO a month on Virginia Ave plus a long wait for OE is not worth $10ish/hr

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Originally Posted by Nantonaku (Post 3261551)

When that happens then you'll have to start debating if you take the upgrade into the 220/73 or take the seat lock for the wide body. The decisions only get harder.

Originally Posted by flyingmau5 (Post 3261465)

Is it worth commuting for? Never flew INTL WB so not sure what the pros are vs. being in base on a NB frame.

Originally Posted by 20Fathoms (Post 3261459)

Not sure why everyone seems to think a long wait for TOE is a bad thing. You know we get paid while waiting right? As someone about to finish IQ on the ER, I say throw me in that briar patch! Almost 300 an hour to grow a beard and occasionally review flows? Yes please :D

Originally Posted by Nantonaku (Post 3261551)

When that happens then you'll have to start debating if you take the upgrade into the 220/73 or take the seat lock for the wide body. The decisions only get harder.

Originally Posted by TED74 (Post 3261564)

If I’m being honest, an airline career simply wouldn’t be worth commuting to. But that is just me and obviously tens of thousands of pilots make it work, many very happily. I also happen to live in a domicile that I’d live in even without this job, so that’s easy for me to say.



Any Internet advice from anonymous people who don’t know your situation (personality, family situation, likes/dislikes, finances, hobbies, etc.) is honestly pretty worthless. Even advice from one’s closest friends and family can tend to be advice those friends and family are really just giving themselves. But since you’re here asking…if I were living in LA and junior on the 320, I would stay put and let my seniority rise incrementally for the next couple of years. I’d avoid Virginia Ave and keep my powder dry (and seat unlocked) to get a sense of where this company and this industry and this country and NB big packs are headed. The ER category is nothing like it was even 10 years ago - the airplane wouldn’t draw me, and I wouldn’t find the seniority penalty to switch to it (I think you’ll rise faster on 320) worthwhile. Good luck to you - in the end there’s more than one right answer and you can enjoy any path you end up on.