Thumbs, I'm retiring as well, I think retiring mil have a better shot than separating mil, at least that's the anectdotal evidence. I'm retiring, but crickets so far from Purple. I'm hoping some 121 time from AA or DAL will help my chances. Good luck to you.

 

Hearing the same also. As someone else mentioned there are just a lot more data points out there for Delta to get a sense of hiring at the moment. Good luck to you as well!

-👍🏻

 

Does FedEx have hiring preference to pilots coming from the freight world at places like Empire, Mountain air cargo, Amflight? Or would it be better to go to a 121 regional for a few years? I would go to Empire if they had some kind of flow to FedEx but to my knowledge nothing of the sort exists right now.

 

Thumbsup and propbandit. I was in the same boat as you two nearly a year ago. Did 6 months at a regional then got the call 1 week after I hit 100 hours. Shoot me a PM if you have any questions. Happy to help.

 

Is ANC an obtainable base for a new guy or just a pipe dream??

 

Pipe Dream

 

Last post - not so helpful. Just a suggestion, but it might help if you post factual information.

The most recent bid had 11 FOs awarded ANC. There were no vacancies on the bid, so those were a result of others upgrading, retiring or leaving the base.

Of those 11, all but one were hired in the last two years. The bottom 7 were all hired in 2017 with the most junior being hired in Dec 2017.

The base manning has shrunk over the last several years. With a fairly large percentage of locals there now, movement is pretty slow. Lots of local FOs just biding their time waiting to move left. It's unlikely that you'll see many senior folks suddenly bid ANC, hence the majority of the recent awards going to junior folks. So, I'd say your chances of getting there eventually are pretty good. However, it's probably unlikely (but not impossible) you'll get there for an initial assignment. It's definitely a possibility on future bids but how long that might take once you're hired is really all about the timing of our very infrequent bids (lately once a year at best). Obviously the guy just hired in Dec had pretty good timing.

 

I'll need to check again, but I think they did not fill all vacancies in ANC. You might still see some new hires.

 

Go to a regional, hands down.

 

If you want ANC then you need to be assigned either -11 or 757 as initial assignment. Otherwise it will take a very long time.