That's just not true. Maybe 7 months from DOH, which, for someone with the delay, means a month or two of reserve.

Nobody from 7/10 class is holding a line yet even at junior bases. Looks like minimum 2-3 months Reserve LGA, CMH, and IND right now

I'm a 5/15 hire. IOE completed in August. PHL base. Bidding senior reserve. I've been able to hold Thanksgiving and Christmas off. Probably a couple more months before I'll hold a line. So 7-8 months.


I prefer reserve right now, I live near the airport, and I don't need to build any more time. So every day I don't fly, I'm happy. I'm flying around 20 hours a month.



If I stayed in LGA, I would have had a line @ 5 months. EWR would have been about the same.



These times are going to keep increasing because of how many pilots they have hired and no new growth yet.

I was thinking about bidding for phl or Pit glad you mentioned how long it’ll take you to hold PHL

LOL! Yeah that's definitely not true at all.. Most are holding a line after a month or two of reserve or less. A buddy of mine hired a few months back got a line after literally 2 weeks of reserve lol. (The next bid cycle).

I must be bad luck billy or something then because I picked CMH thinking there wouldn’t be any reserve and December will be my 3rd month of it...and my bid sheets were set up to be the most likely to get a line even if it’s a crap one

You probably got screwed a bit with timing, too...schedules are paired back a bit in the winter.

IND only took me 3 months to hold a line. You can get an idea of when you’ll get one by looking at the most junior line-holder on Flica each previous month to see a rough estimate on how many folks are getting lines ahead of you.


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I hit the line in August as well (EWR) and I'm still on reserve, getting close though....I'm guessing @ Feb or March...

Lazy Sunday....I looked up some of our classmates from 5/15, the only folks I saw with lines are IND, CMH and most of LGA. There are still a couple from that class in LGA that are on reserve.

I have an interview coming up in December. 91/135 guy. I know these class pushback dates are great PTO. I’m definitely not the type of guy looking for the quickest time out of IOE, however, it makes me a little uneasy being 6 months out from training. So many things happen weekly in the regional world. It might be hard to sign a contract to wait and then things could shift so quickly. But, it is the way of the airlines. Just my .02 that mean nothing.


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