When "will [they] just start to also do some 175 flying there", meaning based out of there?

Sometime this summer. And it will just be fly through out of DFW and/or ORD. No base there.

If you want to stay in Florida I would not consider Republic. Not only will you have to commute from the outset, but when you can hold the left seat MIA will likely not be the junior upgrade so you will wait even longer for that. Envoy can give you no commute from the beginning and faster upgrade and MIA would be available for that also. Silver is another option in FLL. Also the only major that has a base in south florida is AA and envoy takes you directly there. Jetblue and Spirit are also on the table if you want that to be your career company.

I’d like to chime in, but pardon the ignorance as I’m not on the inside yet. From what I’ve read, envoys possible to get MIA only if you get on the 140 and first do 6-8 months on property but first stop is LGA. Then, as soon as you hit upgrade mins then back to LGA and sit CA reserve for almost a year. The. Hold a line, then transfer back out again.

My hope is to maybe get on republic and go to LGA, then possibly bid out or upgrade first and be making way better money the entire time, with a Union, on a more nice jet, have trip and duty rigs, and benefits on 3 lines. I don’t mind moving up north or even snow birding it for a few months every year till I can get MIA.

The flow is nice backup by as of now it’s 9+ years and growing and might not even be used if hire classes slow to a stop at aa for whatever reasons. In that 9 years the pay different between the 2 is a crazy amount of money. Any other suggestions I’m open to also.

Ultimate goal is SWA JetBlue AA or Alaska but not in that particular order.

Because no one has ever gone to jetBlue or spirit without it being their career company ... :rolleyes:

Is Houston going to affect the Mia base much?

I hope so...I'm at the bottom of reserve for June. Any number of people to get out there (IAH) in July is going to help. It will help with upgrades too, not just FO's moving out. So overall movement I would think.

I'm also thinking I made a mistake going reserve in Miami when I had a line in DCA and was swapping for trips in Miami anyways. Doing 90+ hours with easy turns out of Miami. I got a feeling being on reserve in Miami they're going to send my ass back to LGA to sit reserve out of base.

Only time will tell and we shall see what actually happens. If I don't see much change and reserve life back to being what it is I may go back out until I hold a line out of Miami.