senority in training
 

Are most companies giving out senority numbers and aircraft and base assignments based on age? i.e., the oldest guy in class is most senior and gets his choice...etc.

That's usually how it's done but some companies also use the last 4 of you social security

I think more do something more easily distinguished. Something like last four digits of your SSN, birthdate, date of hire.

As for aircraft and base assignments it's simply where they need bodies. Continental, Delta, UPS, and FedEx have recently been putting new hires in their larger widebody aircraft (I don't know what the percentages are but I know it happens). Just depends where the need is.

Kind of hard to assign seniority within a class by date of hire...

At TSA, we were ordered by the last four digits of our SSNs. At CHQ, it's by age. The vast majority of airlines use one of these two methods. Eagle I know is age, and I believe SKW is by SSN.

It was age years ago when i was at AE....just wondering

SkyWest does it by the last 4 of your SSN....I got the awesome distinction of being the most junior CRJ FO at the company for 3 weeks. On the lighter side though, my hire date is 5/28/07 and there are already 100 FO's under me, not counting the new-hire EMB-120 classes that have started also (2 I think).

UPS is D.O.B. but it meant nothing in class because everyone was assigned what they got not given a choice.

FDX is last four of your SSN from highest to lowest...9999 beats 0001.

mine is 8898...:)

9701:p

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At TSA, where it was low-beats-high, I had a classmate who was 9995.