DEC CMH Base
 

Can anyone attest to how things would be for a DEC living within driving distance to CMH? yay or nay? Is it worth it? Attainable to get CMH out of training? Thanks in advance!

With your experience, I would shoot for a LCC. No reason to go to any regional at the moment

DEC are being offered any base you want at the moment

Reserve for a few years.


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Somewhat disappointingly, a recruiter recently (as in earlier this week) said that a DEC should only expect to be on reserve for 6 - 9 months.

(Disappointing in as much as I've not heard anything remotely close to that from folks flying at Republic.)

Maybe something's changed?

Here's some perspective. I flew with a CMH captain with 6 years of seniority who still bids reserve in order to get weekends off

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This^^. CMH, IND, ORD, PIT are all super senior. I've flown with many 7 yr CA who are still getting all the ****ty trips, but are lifers here. With block hours dropping and our top 60% of the CA seniority list in CMH not going anywhere, you may not get CMH right away. I'm living a good life as a somewhat senior FO (2nd career) in CMH and I'm hesitant to upgrade because I know my life is going to go to he!!, lol.

So, basically a new hire DEC won't have any control over his/her days off for quite some time? I'm familiar with PBS and swapping/dropping but I'm imagining in my mind that the reserve grid always staying red with how short you all are on captains.

Do reserves typically get flown a ton? Thanks for the info!

Reserve CAs are used and abused to the full extent of the law. Welcome aboard.

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Do you all have long-call reserve? I can't seem to remember if you do or don't. I'm sure that typically goes pretty senior too.

Wouldn’t you also be constantly bumped for about two years as FO’s who upgrade will have seniority over a DEC?

Probably, but I just need some more TPIC to be competitive where I want to go. Plus, I'm within driving distance from CMH. I just wasn't sure if you all had long-call reserve or not; however, I'm sure if it's like when I was with the regionals, LCR went fairly senior. But yes, I would think a DEC would forever be on reserve until he/she gets to their destination airline.

Republic sets about 10% of reserves SYSTEM WIDE long call, meaning one base can have several long call pilots while another base has 0. As a junior DEC you won't see long call for a long time,, and when you finally do they will just convert you back to short call.

Long call at Republic is basically worthless.

As a DEC every pilot that upgrades will leapfrog you. You will be junior forever.

guys always make this argument against DEC’s. But the whole reason an airline needs DEC’s is because guys aren’t upgrading. I doubt the leapfrog will be an issue before he gets the minimal time he needs and moved on.

Exactly. It's not a long-term decision, but any pilot finding themselves wanting to get back into 121 and get some TPIC time will think once or twice about the DEC option. My only fear is that the economy will slow and one could become "stuck".

Contractual 2500hrs gone, the leap frog could happen. Just a thought

do you have 1000 121 sic?

2,000 121 including mostly SIC and some PIC before I left to fly freight. I then left for a corporate job that didn't go as advertised. So I'm just figuring out what to do from here.

Low cost carrier is your answer not regionals

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For those that live very near a base, reserve isn't such a bad thing.

Seniority means nothing on reserve at Republic unlike most other airlines. You can only proffer to fly first not fly last and the bucket system make sure the reserves are used and abused however scheduling sees fit. Obviously the FO side is different at the moment since we have hundreds of FOs sitting around not flying

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Do you all have the option to drop reserve days? Is the grid ever green in CMH on the captain’s side?

Yes, CA grid is typically red.

I spent a lot of my reserve time at EWR and live about an hour away, it was awesome! (although we were used a lot more back then)

Chuck a suitcase and uniform in the car and just go about my business everyday.

Gotcha. Thanks for the answer. I am assuming that junior captains on reserve in CMH are being used quite a bit right now?

I'm an FO but my impression is that all captains are being used quite a bit. It's newer FOs who are sitting. Nearly all of my trips end up with a different CA than originally scheduled for some reason or other. Last market podcast had CMH as 3-4 years to hold a line as a CA. (Only 5 months for an FO)

You missed the point. Living in base vs commuting makes it a completely different job. Even reserve living in base is better than commuting.

Yep, exactly....