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Originally Posted by j12770
Hello, I posted in here a while ago. I’m getting tired of the 135 stuff and want to jump to 121(I’m an FO at 1600hrs and plenty turbine). Preferably a LCC but haven’t heard back from others, but have an offer from Breeze. I live in Tampa and my thought was “great I’ll get the A220 (heard everyone was because of how many they had on order) and live in base TPA, or commute until I get it eventually. Read all the previous pages on the forum, and it sounds like living here in TPA will almost make me worse off due to seniority and if I got the E190. Any thoughts on what I should look at doing? I was actually really stoked to work at Breeze but from some previous posts, now I’m not so sure????
Commuting on the A220 sucks, but if you live in base it’s great! Those lucky enough to be able to move to a base are very happy. Seniority is relative. Every new hire is at the bottom. But with the number of planes on order your seniority will go up quickly. Tpa is senior so you will be junior there, but as we get more planes, junior seniority becomes senior rather quickly. We added roughly 200 pilots last year, probably more than that this year. So look at percentages.
Again commuting can be done just takes your days off away. Once in base even on reserve your home!
The plane is amazing, the people are great, just the trips are not commutable yet. You have to get to the base a day earlier and leave a day after.
In base: the trips are highly efficient flying day. 15 hrs 2 day trips with a 24 hr layover pretty great!
The company has to fix it or they will loose a lot of pilots this year