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11-07-2022 | 05:52 AM

Av8er1550

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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!

11-07-2022 | 06:59 PM

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

11-08-2022 | 02:54 AM

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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!

DEC are being offered any base you want at the moment

11-08-2022 | 05:44 PM

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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!

Reserve for a few years.

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11-12-2022 | 11:05 AM

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Reserve for a few years.

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?

11-12-2022 | 12:09 PM

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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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11-13-2022 | 07:06 AM

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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.

11-13-2022 | 05:21 PM

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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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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!