Well he's giving you guys a bad name.

 

Most junior line holder in IAD or ORD?

 

Most junior line holder in IAD is a January or February 2014 new hire. IAD is the most junior base. Easiest and fastest place to hold a line. People come and go in waves every month.
CLT has some super senior CA's. Flew with one the other week who has seniority longer than I have been alive ! Top 150 guys will probably never leave here. Top 200 pilots here are lifers. But heck that's a lot less than some other places like Skywest. Good thing is that there is a lot of movement and most of the pilots here have a desire to get in and out. A regional is a regional no matter how you much you want to shine it. Get in and out and move on to a mainline.

 

Ah, no that's not the type of personality issues we're talking about.

All the new CA upgrades are good, normal guys. Same with new hires.

We're talking about these guys that were mostly prior CC Air, hired by those now defunct airlines in the 80's and early 90s that were purchased by Mesa around year 2000.

Btw new hire class I met last week was made up of 3 Expressjet guys 2 Republic Q guys and 1 or 2 Eagle guys. Lots of corporate experience.

 

[QUOTE=pilot207;1654591]Most junior line holder in IAD is a January or February 2014 new hire. IAD is the most junior base. Easiest and fastest place to hold a line. QUOTE]

Wow, so how many months of reserve can you expect in IAD? 1 or 2? Can any IAD lineholders speak to the QOL? Routes? Is it CRJ-7 and 9, or CRJ-7 only? Thanks!

 

[QUOTE=kb8018;1654743]As an IAD reserve you'll do CLT 900 and IAD 700 flying since we do most the Airways flights CLT-IAD-CLT and some of the United flights IAD-CLT-IAD.

As an IAD lineholder it's all 700/United system flying, much of which are longer legs to Texas/Florida and Boston/Indy/Norfolk turns. Most trips do a bit of that stuff on the ends and flow through ORD in the middle.

Time on reserve in IAD depends less on movement up the list and more on how many new hires below you are able to bid out before you get pushed up the list by them.

A decent estimate would be 2 months at the current rate of hiring. It really depends on how many people below you who show up in IAD actually want to stay there, versus people who show up below you in IAD who are simply waiting to bid out as soon as possible.

There are a handful of midrange FOs in IAD who bid reserve on purpose because it's pretty good QOL with weekends off if you live nearby and/or have other stuff you need to work on besides flying, like a side business or doing college/grad school online on the side

 

How about ORD? What's the junior FO's DOH? Junior lineholder's?

 

As of yesterday ORD can be held before finishing training. Junior lineholders around 1 year on property, but time-to-line should go down very quickly in the next few months (lots of ORD FOs upgrading and senior ORD FOs finally going back home to PHX 8/1/14).

 

According to the standing bid letter from yesterday, November 13' hires can hold a line in ORD this august.

 

Can't be any worse than the name fozjared has given you guys!!