MtnFlying

Ah, okay, sounds like CRJ for the long haul then. I'm looking forward to it though.

KirillTheThrill

The CRJ-ERJ transition is a full course minus INDOC. ERJ-ERJ upgrade is a short course. The last CA transition classes had guys under 4 years including yours truly.

So how the hell did you come up with 15+ years lol?

amcnd

I'm saying the next batch of “transition” captains will be. There plan was to do 10 in November. That didn't happen. Look at the top 10 with a transition bid in.. And i know at-least 5 people that will put a bid in when they post those types of openings.. senior guys don’t like to put there cards on the table.. they wait tell a day before the bid closes…

Milksheikh

just keep in mind that transition upgrade classes go by first to get bypassed not necessarily seniority order. So if there are junior guys getting bypassed they’ll get first dibs before a senior guy for the next class.

CareerPivotDUPLCTUSERACCOUNT

My apologies for the newbie question... then again, I'm a newbie.

If I get awarded say ORD out of training, but I'm trying to get to LAX, would I have to hold a line and have bid seniority before I could get LAX or could I sit reserve there first if there's an opening? And can you bid multiple bases to get closer to the west coast (i.e. 1st choice LAX, 2nd SFO, 3rd SLC...) and slow walk it west till I could eventually hold LAX?

I'm sure this will all be answered once I have access to SWOL, but I'm another month away from being deemed worthy. Thanks for your help!

Champeen07

Put in your bid in order for which base you want. So 1. LAX 2. SFO and so on. When they award bases you will get the transfer to whichever one there is an opening that is highest on your list. And yes it'll almost always be on reserve unless its a base that doesn't have reserves. So say that DEN is number 5 on your list and theres openings, you'll get the transfer to DEN. Then the next month if theres an opening in SFO then you'll get awarded there. Basically just put your bid in for preference of base and each month you'll get the highest one on your list that has openings and no one senior to you takes. It'll probably take a few months to get back out west, but not forever.

JohnnyBekkestad

Skywest has right now 18 domiciles, (Used to be 20, but ATL and LGA closed). Some domiciles are CRJ only, some are ERJ only and some are mixed. Within that you also have CRJ and ERJ DMA domiciles (Aspen and Eagle).
When you bid, you can bid up to 10 choices, 1 though 10. Where 1 would be higher priority over 2 etc.
You can also bid for Transfer (Transfer from ORD to LAX), Transition (CRJ -> ERJ), Upgrade (FO -> CA) and Downgrade (CA -> FO)
Some other options are to bid for ANY domicile, this would be, "I don't care where you send me as long as i get an upgrade", and you can choose "BEFORE DATE" or "AFTER DATE", this is very important in case you have vacation planned etc since you will loose awarded vacation.
Once Virginia processes the awards she does it based on seniority.
So in order for you to get LAX, there needs to be a vacancy in LAX and you need to be senior enough to get the award.
Once you transfer into LAX you will either be reserve or line holder, that has to do with your seniority within LAX.
I would be highly surprised if it would take you longer than 6 months to get LAX, once there you will most probably be reserve for a while, since LAX is quite senior. Short call reserve is 2 hours, so that could be challenging depending on where you live. My buddy has to drive halfway from Temecula in order to make his 2 hour callout.
Once more thing to remember is that the ERJ is much more senior than the CRJ, so you will be reserve longer on the ERJ and it will take you longer to upgrade into the ERJ.

Good luck, and welcome to SkyWest.

Gearup1

Are you on the ERJ?

CareerPivotDUPLCTUSERACCOUNT

Thanks, champeen07 and JohnnyBekkestad. All that makes perfect sense. Glad to hear LAX is attainable eventually. Don’t mind a longer reserve as I live about 10 minutes from the airport.

Looking forward to joining you all in the flight deck soon.

domino

that’s great. You will almost be able to sit your airport reserve periods from home.