Originally Posted by Avroman (Post 2361587)

DTW isn't much better unfortunately. And more 900 flying is scheduled to shift out of DTW and MSP to New York after the summer flying season. There have been a few secondary vacancies filled in DTW, none in MSP, and no primary vacancies in either position. The 200 has been similar, though the 200's in New York are supposed to start moving to ATL and DTW soon.
June bid packs post tomorrow, and schedules a week later, let's see how it looks with the summer flying.

Originally Posted by Farmlover (Post 2361592)

Dtw has a good junk of captains on ssp that are leaving here soon that will open up some spots. Still movement going on.

Originally Posted by Farmlover (Post 2361592)

Dtw has a good junk of captains on ssp that are leaving here soon that will open up some spots. Still movement going on.

Originally Posted by Bornflying (Post 2361501)

To be clear here, we are saying 10 years to hold line as CA, but how long to make CA reserve other than NY?

Originally Posted by Avroman (Post 2361648)

There are about 10 DTW 900 that will be leaving this month or next... yet there were no primary vacancies from 17-01 or 02... that means that those positions are shifting to New York and those pilots aren't being replaced in DTW. That is movement backwards for DTW pilots as they were the bottom reserve pilots.. now the top reserves will fall to the bottom and former lineholders will be back on reserve. DTW has lost over 1/3rd of its 900 captains without replacement over the last year or so.

Originally Posted by Bornflying (Post 2361008)

Green Needles, you make is sound like I would be stuck in NYC forever. In your opinion, how long would you guess getting ATL would be? If it takes a little over a year to upgrade, doesn't that mean you'd be halfway up the FO line in about a half a year? How bad is it commuting? How many days could I expect to be home? How many "commutable" lines are there? Any tricks to be home more?

Yes it makes sense with an upgrade i'd be back in NYC..but with more days off correct? I suppose that would mean being back on reserve for a while.

I'd be leaving a higher paying corporate/charter gig to come here, but being on call 24/7, hardly knowing any days off in advance, no job security (can sell the plane any time), combined with being home 10 days a month (yes I know initially I would be home even less) makes this look attractive in comparison.

As far as job progression, having time in a larger aircraft (compared to corporate) I think is invaluable experience to be gained. I think it is very hard for the majors to consider you without that kind of experience or military time.

I'm facing either being stuck in corporate forever or taking this chance to get into something different, and by all accounts it looks like there's never been a better time to go to the regionals. These kind of pay scales and upgrade times were unheard of only a few years ago. Do you disagree with that?

Originally Posted by Bornflying (Post 2361501)

To be clear here, we are saying 10 years to hold line as CA, but how long to make CA reserve other than NY?

Originally Posted by WhiskeyKilo (Post 2361658)

You need to understand how bidding for a position works. Right now the company is only putting new FO's in NYC and ATL. Until the last vacancy no CA positions in DTW and MSP had been back filled but now we are starting to see secondary vacancies pop up for DTW and MSP on the CA side. Would you be able to get DTW or MSP with under 5 years of seniority? Probably not but this company is moving people around so fast next year DTW could be the junior base again. Predicting position availability 6 months down the road is just about as accurate as blindly throwing a dart at a dart board.