Choice of base
 

Hey guys:

Just looking for some inside information. I read on the website that LGA & JFK are the bases where newly hired FO's are based. Also, read that ssn determines seniority. My question is that if I'm most senior in my class, do I get to pick my base or is it determined by ssn?
Thanks in advance.

atp

You will only get assigned where vacancies exist at the moment they assign bases. So if there were 3 spots in say CVG and 15 spots in NYC, and you were the top bidding in your class you would have first shot at CVG over the rest of your class.

You won’t “pick” your base as much as rank them and then you get given whatever is is available. It will 99% be NYC or CVG out of training. If you’re lucky you may be able to get DTW out of training or soon after. MSP and ATL are going to be a while.

The good ole days of great bases and great flying at Endeavor are long gone . It was much better when it was Mesaba and Express one . Skywest and Envoy have the best bases.

What great bases did Mesaba have that Endeavor doesn’t? CWA?

I think Express I pilots would disagree with your assessment calling their outstation bases great considering they displaced everyone out of MEM and MSP to open them and furloughed a lot of pilots at the same time

We had MEM, DTW, MSP , CVG , CWA, RHI, and most of all no NY . We had tons of flying at those bases as well as a lot of flying out west with SLC as a focus city . Even the early days of Endeavor weren’t bad. I’ll agree we didn’t have a lot of different bases but mostly a lot more flying and the flying was spread out through all the other bases with much better trips and layovers and no NY.

Yeah, Edv would be set if they opened a Rhinelander crew base again, that’s the fix.

Bases
 

What are latest classes getting for bases and what percentage are NYC or CVG. Also, what’s the average time it’d take to get to Atlanta? And, when do you get the base decisions? TIA

Also Memphis would be a great option. Those who are still around from the Northern Mississippi Flying Club would probably be the only ones who would want that

Already mentioned some of this this above. You’ll get your initial class within a few weeks of start date. Typically when you’re at in person training.

From the newest realignment- 90% NYC, maybe 7% CVG, 3% DTW. Any new hire should come expecting NYC for a while and then have a crack at CVG or DTW before too long. Before this newest realignment it was taking a year and a half to hold Atlanta. It is by far the most desired base in the system, and I wouldn’t expect to hold it if you came in the door right now for minimum a year maybe more.

Thanks! I was planning on asking the same question. Appreciate the info.

atp