base preference during hiring
03-29-2023, 10:59 PM
#11
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Joined APC: Oct 2015
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Originally Posted by phl08
Do you have any say in base preference, and if not given can you defer until it's available? If deferral is not an option, what's the process to request next available opening that you're eligible for at said base?
Obviously, everyone wants to avoid a commute but for those who live in cities that are already a base is seems to be counterproductive to assign them to somewhere that involves leaving home many hours earlier (or the night before) to fly their assigned trip.
Obviously, everyone wants to avoid a commute but for those who live in cities that are already a base is seems to be counterproductive to assign them to somewhere that involves leaving home many hours earlier (or the night before) to fly their assigned trip.
CLT seniority
09-16-2023, 04:52 AM
#13
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Joined APC: Sep 2016
Posts: 84
Originally Posted by TEHawks
Can anyone provide an update on what the most junior FO for Piedmont is at CLT? And can anyone share how they are finding that out? Thanks for any info
10-09-2023, 02:06 PM
#14
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Joined APC: Oct 2023
Posts: 36
Originally Posted by phl08
Do you have any say in base preference, and if not given can you defer until it's available? If deferral is not an option, what's the process to request next available opening that you're eligible for at said base?
Obviously, everyone wants to avoid a commute but for those who live in cities that are already a base is seems to be counterproductive to assign them to somewhere that involves leaving home many hours earlier (or the night before) to fly their assigned trip.
Obviously, everyone wants to avoid a commute but for those who live in cities that are already a base is seems to be counterproductive to assign them to somewhere that involves leaving home many hours earlier (or the night before) to fly their assigned trip.
If you want CLT or MDT, you'll bid for it every month through a website (your OE captain will show you).
You'll get your choice once you're high enough on the seniority list (usually 3 months currently)
10-30-2023, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by phl08
I am 30 minutes door to door to PHL and about 80 from EWR. LGA or JFK would be 2 hours in good traffic (if I left home the second I was called up). I don’t plan on moving so I’m trying to determine the best route to go in applying to regionals and - if given the choice of offers - which would potentially minimize commuting during the time I’m on reserve. It would be icing in the cake if I got PHL or EWR as a line holder. But I’m more willing to commute when I’m no longer on reserve.
When someone upthread mentioned that juniors at piedmont mostly go to PHL as of now, but then could be assigned MDT…that would be an example if something that’s not commutable in 2 hours from where I live if I was assigned reserve there, and I can’t imagine crashing somewhere closer to MDT only to not be called for duty.
When someone upthread mentioned that juniors at piedmont mostly go to PHL as of now, but then could be assigned MDT…that would be an example if something that’s not commutable in 2 hours from where I live if I was assigned reserve there, and I can’t imagine crashing somewhere closer to MDT only to not be called for duty.
11-10-2023, 04:52 AM
#19
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Joined APC: Oct 2023
Posts: 36
Originally Posted by phl08
Thanks for the insight. What happens in a scenario where you're freshly minted out of training and based at one airport on reserve, but you live more than 2 hours commuting distance to that airport? Do you need to commute to that base and find a crashpad and potentially not even fly? Or how do they determine if you are on a 2 hour or 12 hour clock to get to the airport in that kind of situation?
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