100% take the job at United. Then quit United and go to the delta class as long as you want to live in SLC. Always take the first class! Always! The. Decide if you want to quit for Delta this summer.

Thank you everyone for the replies, knowledge, and insight with everything. I’m sure there are others that might find themselves in my shoes as well so this thread can hopefully help many. Keep it going... Thanks again, fly safe! -B

....until an airline buys you and closes your base and the next closest base is 2,200nm away.

In 2015 I’d say go to Delta, but they have hired an insane amount of people since then and you would be behind a bottleneck. United hasn’t hired nearly as many relative to retirements, so I think your seniority rise would be better at UA. But rule 1, decide where you’re going to live and go to the one where you can drive to work.

That sucks for sure. I’m a big wimpy boy relative to airline hardship. 4 years in, lightning seniority, live in base on reserve, and haven’t turned a wheel on reserve since October 24th. I literally cannot think of a better job. Except maybe working with the Swedish bikini team applying sunscreen for the season. Towns that way......those are some lucky guys

As some others have said. Take the first offer and get a line number. When or if the next class date comes along, then make the decision. Don't burn any bridges along the way. Stuff happens in this business. When you get to that point, where you and your wife wants to live would probably be the primary determining factor sans any major changes to the business between now and then. Good luck. It's a good situation to be in.

The Delta and United pilot profiles are polar opposites... one of the processes identified you correctly, the other is false positive. Go to United and find out which one it is...

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Nope. Left seat of a 717. Doesn't surprise me that its not true. As I said, I couldn't believe it either. Alaska used to give you at least two chances and I know of one guy who had at least 3 tries. He never could pass IOE so he was an F/O for life.

He must’ve read it on the Internet.