I hope we never get the ability to fly over vacation or sell back vacation...because pilots will do just that.

Well, after reading through all of this, I can also agree that the contractual differences don’t matter much in the long run - any job at the big 3 plus FDX/UPS are good careers. Contracts come and go, AA stands to gain a bunch of improvements with our next contract.

Bottom line, if our Marine wants to live in the DC area, I’d go UAL in a heartbeat. The IAD flying and hub is awesome... a huge variety of International (and domestic, if international gets old.) drive to IAD and fly a wide body your whole career. You cant do that at AA, you’d have to commute to PHL, CLT, NYC or MIA...all we have at DCA/IAD is the 737 and A320. The only advantage AA has in his situation is better end of career seniority.

Good luck, it’s an awesome choice to have!

How senior is the clt base in general and how senior to hold wide body?

I’m a March 2014 hire. I’m 72% at about 12800 in CLT

Most junior WB FO in CLT is around 10400

I’d say pretty senior overall (although new hires are in this base)

Who knows for WB... but a long long while I’m sure

Wide body has typically always been very senior in CLT, as it has always been a very small base. The CLT 767 base is closing in March (it was down to 1 or 2 lines anyway and no international). The 330 has also always been very senior (again, small base). There are rumors of them concentrating more 767s in PHL and moving some 330s to CLT, which would grow the category. That remains to be seen, though.

Been off grid for a few days. I appreciate all the input.

I am going to see how many classes UAL has scheduled in 2018 before making a decision. I was told 925 new pilots this year at American.

Luckily I do not have to make a decision until February.

How do you have an offer at UAL without any recent flying? Are you a furlough?

If going by this year is a measuring stick, UAL can’t plan more than 2-3 months at a time.

And for Nov-Dec, that proved to be quite challenge for them.

But then again, a while back, AA(G) had a similar issue.

Take the first class date offered... and if it’s not UAL, switch when they can get you in class.

CJO from both. I have been doing some Part 91 corporate flying on the side the last 2 years. Logged 168 hours in a LRJET 60.