I was looking at Feb seniority trying to decide which base to bid after getting bumped from BWI. I have the most guys beneath me at PHX. Again this is based on Feb #s and I guess March vacancy was just published.

 

SO...... what you're saying is plan on OAK/LAS/ or PHX for about a year barring any unforseen changes between now and then. Thanks for the heads up!


BTW...why is PHX going junior?

 

I can only guess that PHX is going junior because we're increasing flights to/from DEN up so heavily. SWA stripped MCO and BWI when they stood up LAS as a crew base. LAS went more senior for Captains than most expected. A lot of senior FOs are leaving LAS realizing their upgrade won't be as quick there as they had anticipated. I saw my seniority from BWI go from 40 from the bottom two months ago, to #2 from the bottom this month. I expect to be displaced in March when they cut 4 FOs in March.

 

Im basing the most junoir base off the minimum employee number required to bid in the base. The lowest employee number in all the domiciles and the month/year they were hired on and the number of classes that has started since then is listed below.

OAK: 86500 10/07 1
LAS: 86100 9/07 1
PHX: 85900 8/07 3
MDW: 85000 6/07 8
HOU: 84500 4/07 11
MCO: 84400 4/07 11
BWI: 84300 4/07 12
DAL: 82900 12/06 23


So I would say the most junior to senior base would be based on the employee number you must have to bid into the base to hold some sort of line, not how many pilots a specific person would have beneath them on the list in each domicile. This took a little time so I hope it helps.

 

I just heard on the earnings webcast the company is only going to increase its total fleet size by 7 aircraft this year.

 

HuronIP, thanks for the intel. Keep it coming!!