Originally Posted by Jdub2 (Post 3521927)

If you are lucky enough to be awarded a widebody as a newhire at Delta you will not be senior enough to hold reserve. That’s how great our reserve rules are

if you want to see your kid bid 220 and you will work four days a month. Plus you will never have to sit FSB/ready reserve

all reserve is long call convertible to 6 days of short call a bid period. I average less than two a month. If you do get short call you need to be within three-ish hours of report, to any of the three nyc airports. You will be able to sit reserve at home

Originally Posted by Seminole00 (Post 3521858)

Both are junior base at their respective airline so you will move up quickly. I don't know Delta's reserve callout time but if you can make it to the gate in about 2 hours or so you should be fine on reserve at DAL. With the current movement you might not be on reserve for long.

Originally Posted by FlyingNasaForm (Post 3521847)

I'd be thankful if anyone could share some advice on what they think is best for me.

I live in central NJ, about 40 mins from EWR. UA seems the obvious choice due to the easy EWR drive but it seems like DAL may have better work rules. I have a young child at home and currently at corp where I get 15-18 days off a month. When I flew for the regionals I was good at "gaming" the system to maximize pay and QoL. I make around $270,000 (pay + retirement) now and getting back to that is important, but so is seeing my kid.

Originally Posted by Otterbox (Post 3522498)

UAL for the win. The shorter the drive the less the rest of the stuff matters. There’s a big difference every time you double your drive time to work. You can bid NB, get hours your first year, bid WB FO going into year 2 for the higher pay or upgrade to Captain once you get 1000hrs of 121 SIC time.

Originally Posted by Jdub2 (Post 3521927)

If you are lucky enough to be awarded a widebody as a newhire at Delta you will not be senior enough to hold reserve. That’s how great our reserve rules are

if you want to see your kid bid 220 and you will work four days a month. Plus you will never have to sit FSB/ready reserve

all reserve is long call convertible to 6 days of short call a bid period. I average less than two a month. If you do get short call you need to be within three-ish hours of report, to any of the three nyc airports. You will be able to sit reserve at home

Originally Posted by Jimraynor (Post 3531352)

A220 fo nyc. I fly maybe once every other month…