Please use an example so I can better explain it to a few others.

 

You are seniority number 100 overall in the company. It doesn't matter what base you are in, you still #100 overall in the company. When you bid in your base, everyone that is in your base that has a lower seniority number will bid before you, and everyone with a higher number will bid after you.

The "base seniority" is relative. If, for instance, CLT is very senior and there are 80 people with numbers 1-99, then you will bid 81st. In Knoxville, lets pretend that there are only 10 people that are more senior to you (1-99), then you bid 11th. So, in CLT your base seniority would be 81, and TYS would be 11. BUT, if you moved from one base to another, your overall seniority number of 100 would follow you.

Your overall seniority number determine what your base seniority is.

You bid in the order that you were hired. It doesn't matter how long you have been in any particular base. If you were hired in 2013, you will ALWAYS bid ahead of those hired in 2014, and will ALWAYS be junior to those that were hired in 2012.

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Some people prefer to be in a junior base so they have fewer people ahead of them. That will allow you to bid as if you were more senior. Other people will bypass upgrade for several months so they will be more senior when they upgrade.

 

Wrong, sounds like a scare tactic to stop people switching bases.
your base seniority is determined by your system wide seniority.
The number 1 f/o will be the number 1 f/o in any base he chooses.

 

No that would not be correct. Since all pilots fly all 3 series of airplanes all the time, there is no incentive or benefit for the company to want to keep pilots locked into particular bases.

It's more likely that the new hires misunderstood what was said.

 

Is there anywhere to see the current up to date blended pay rates? Maybe the ALPA page...

 

We get an email every quarter with the new blended rates. Check your old company email.


Blended Rate 1st Quarter 2015

Years..................CA Rate.............FO Rate
0-1 Years.............61.67..................24.05
1-2 Years.............65.03..................34.50
2-3 Years.............66.63..................37.45
3-4 Years.............70.01..................38.81
and it continues from there.

The one on APC is a little outdated.

 

i'm right. Your wrong.
your base seniority is determined by your system wide seniority.
The number 1 f/o will be the number 1 f/o in any base he chooses.

Perhaps someone was misled but we get lied to on a daily basis. I'd assume someone in management was wrong about this. They have no idea what we do or how we do it.

 

If you have to ask, you can't afford it. First year FO pay after taxes is ~$800 on the 5th, and around $1400 on the 20th based on your per diem. Your pay in training is actually higher than when you are on the line based on the 24/7 per diem. If you signed up for the A plan med bennies, i think that is $500 month, so you see there really isn't much left. Make sure you have a war chest/guard gig/ or spousal income before becoming a regional FO.

 

Not even $800 on the 5th, more like high 6's...

 

A Plan for employee and spouse is 497, but B plan is 221. The B plan is still really good coverage and quite frankly the A plan didn't make a lot of financial sense.