Hello all!
new prospective pilot here. Could someone please explain these seniority charts? I'm looking at Regionals and trying to see how to stay close to home if possible. This is from SkyWest site.


Thanks!


(cant post images yet here's the link, at bottom of page)

(looking at SAN mostly)

https://www.skywest.com/skywest-airl...thway-program/

SAN is the most senior base for both seats and only the ERJ is based there, likely the more senior plane. Most junior F/O there was hired on 12/6/2018.

GF

The chart gives you the hire date of the junior-most CA, and junior-most FO.

But that does NOT tell the whole story about a given base, there are other demographics to consider.

For example very senior bases (anything in SOCAL) will likely have so many very senior folks that there is very little (or zero) movement among line holders.

What can happen in that case is that a very senior base can actually go very junior to new FO's looking to get in. But once they get there, they may be stuck at a very low relative seniority forever. People realize they'd rather move or commute than be stuck on the bottom forever.

So two new hires could possible go to SAN and say DTW. The DTW guy will do a month of reserve, then hold a line. move up very quickly and maybe upgrade in two hours. The SAN guy might still be a reserve FO two years later. Not saying that's the case exactly but that illustrates the point... you need to talk to somebody in the know.