DTW has a good airport hotel on site, the Westin. The airport must confuse new hires beacuse they use unpublished frequencies and odd ball change over points, but Kennedy often just tells you to monitor ground so they have more time to scream at Air France for making wrong turns on to active runways. The sooner you learn to just roll with it the happier you will be. The only big, efficient, perfectly logical, operation on the planet is Atlanta. You will also observe any airport US Air operates from is a complete ATC disaster.

New York has improved a bunch with the new facilities and will only get better.

I'd say it is a toss up. Both have really good Captains and good operations. Some of my favorites are in both bases. You will have fun.

 

What's the latest class drop?

 

2 Jun:

17 73n (7 NYC/10 ATL)
20 A320 NYC
30 MD88 (50-50 NYC/ATL)
12 717 ATL

Not sure what the extra 29 jets are for. Class is 50.

 

I thought you were referring to once you're able to hold a line, since you'll likely benefit from late reports to commute into. If youre looking to get senior on reserve and long call from home and commute in for short call, thats a good strategy, and would probably work the same across those fleets, but theyre all out there flying high time though. So fastest to a commutable line would most likely still be md88

 

88: large category with fast seniority advancement, but the hardest working of the three.
320: much smaller category and fewer trips and slower advancement. large percentage of one or both day non commutable trips due to the nature of NYC domestic coupled with a small category that was created way sooner than it needed to be for the sole purpose of making pilots eat the cost of as many NYC overnights as possible. despite it being one of the worst categories in the system for the bottom 50%, people senior to you will continuously be bidding in as there's just something mysteriously alluring about people wanting to say they're on "the bus in new york".
737: fairly large category, massive trip variety but the slowest advancement of the three.

I'd pick either the 88 for pure advancement/seniority or the 737 for broader over all choices. Either way you'll be in one of, if not the, easiest commutes in the system with the half hourly flight schedules and near always seat or jumpseat availability.

Of the three you can't go wrong though.

 

There were no ATL73N FO available.

Here is the available spots for June 2.

ATL M88FO=15
NYC M88FO = 15
ATL B717FO =12
NYC A320FO = 20
NYC B73NFO =7
DTW B73NFO= 10

 

Not even close.

They will do everything humanly possible to give you the earliest assignment on day one that they can. This gets you in position for your reserve block and gives them the most amount of coverage. Long call on day one is very, very rare in narrowbody categories when they are short. Unless you have an ultara high frequency commute or live in base, plan on commuting up early evening on your last day off almost every single time. Long call on day one is extremely rare, particularly if you are in the bottom 75% of the reserve list for the category. Long call fir the first few days in a row of a reserve block: forgetaboutit. Plan on a lot of 10AM day one short calls as well as proactively and agressively yellow slipping day one reports that are as late as possible on days that its obvious you're going to get something and there's something in the pot that works out better for you.

Most long call days will be either orphaned middle block days (more like partial days) or the last day if they can't fit a one day in there.

 

I thought the spots were announced about Day 2 of indoc...? I'm apparently wrong, if spots for a future class are out....

So, I'm in the 16 June class--approx when should I start looking for the list? And where, assuming some kind soul doesn't post it here first...?

 

ATL 88 - The key to reserve is just try to get a yellow slip. You are gonna fly every day on reserve anyway so try and pick your destiny.


Good news - only 2 months on reserve before getting a line!

 

Wow. I sat 4 1/2 years reserve before I held my first line.