Regionals that have Den overnights?

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07-31-2007, 06:34 AM

Airborne

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Regionals that have Den overnights?

For quality of life purposes I would love to be able to live in domicile but I have a great home and wife with a great job here in Denver. Lynx mins are way to high for me (and want to fly F9 mainline someday) and I would rather like to avoid Great Lakes if possible. Sky West would be awesome but I only have 515tt and 45 multi. What regionals have Denver overnights and out of which bases? If I can see the wife and kid on a few overnights that would be awesome. Thanks in advance for any input.

07-31-2007, 06:48 AM

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TSA has overnights on the Connection side out of STL.
Republic has a base in DEN.

07-31-2007, 07:08 AM

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Best advice... get 1000 and go for Skywest, won't take that long

07-31-2007, 08:05 AM

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I'd try to build the time as well and just get on w/ skywest. The key to this one is that the overnights aren't all that long, and overnights change on an almost regular basis, so what's here today might be gone tomorrow...much better to be in your base, as opposed to commuting, and occasionally getting to come home. Best of luck.

07-31-2007, 10:08 AM

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Don't go to a regional for layover potential. Routes change all the time and the layover could disappear or not be long enough to be worth going home.

07-31-2007, 10:19 AM

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Right on. Regional routes change like the wind. Even domiciles open and close too often. Probably better off getting a couple hundred more hours and getting on at Skywest. Then you get to live at home...gotta see the big picture!

07-31-2007, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Airborne

Airborne... with your time Try TSA. They are the only ones that might give you what you are looking for. Once you get the required time for SKW please come over and bid for a DEN base and your dream is complete.

07-31-2007, 11:58 AM

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How senior is DEN for SKW? I'm looking hard at SKW following my Army stint, have lots of family in DEN, and my fiancee loves the mountains. Are the times to bid lines as a FO and upgrade to CA fairly consistant across all domiciles or is the wait at DEN typically much longer?

07-31-2007, 12:59 PM

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Not too senior, 3-6 months for FO's. You might get it out of training.

The small California bases are most senior, followed by TUS, SLC, DEN, ORD, ATL, MKE in roughly that order.

07-31-2007, 01:22 PM

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It will probably take you about 3-6 months to hold DEN as FO and about 3 years for CA. Overall I'd say that DEN is middle of the road in seniority. Things could change; the word is that SKW is in talks to increase our DEN & ORD UAL flying at the expense of MAG. MAG is having problems staff their jets and so far for July and August SKW has been picking up their slack. Word is that UAL wants to ink SKW into the flying long term.

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