I know people getting 700+ first year. 200-300 is sand bagging

 

It’s random as hell, but I got 300 hours in my first 5 months here. If you get the 145, your pretty much screwed.

 

You do mean first five months on the line?

 

I had 150 hours 12 month on property. November 17 hire

 

Don’t get the disinfo campaign. 300 first year is sandbagging? I had 140 hours at the end of year one. Proffered for everything, always on the turnback list, and bid the reserve shifts most likely to get called. It’s slow here on the 145, especially when they overstaff it as they like to do.

 

I had 550 hours 12 months on property. November 17 hire.

Lots of variables involved here.

 

175 I presume? Or 145 lga. I regret going ORD for sure... Just thought it'd be an easier commute out of dfw. You don't know what you don't know. Is what it is. I have better seniority when I upgrade now!

 

This isn’t the norm by any stretch. If you want to believe it is, I have some beach front property to sell you.

Say you start school in January, figure three months to finish everything. Let’s say, under an extremely unlucky scenario, you immediately get a line with your first month being full. Most don’t finish IOE perfectly in time to both bid and fly their first month as a line holder. Anyway, even if this happened, you would have 9 months times 74 hours still puts you under 700 for the remaining year.

The more likely scenario is that you will finish school and hit the reserve list for six months. You may get flying you may not, all depends on seniority and time of year.

There are outliers here but really let’s not talk the extreme end of things. If you plan on 300 hours your first year and 750-900 your second you won’t be disappointed.

 

It really is just too hard to predict. When I started late 2016 I flew 1000 hours in 12 months after IOE. Fast forward to new hires 3-5 months later and they were on reserve for 12+ months.

It’s all about timing and it’s difficult to predict as AA keeps changing the flight file.

 

Yes 175 ORD till I could hold a line in DFW.

2 years to the day indoc to QU.