This right here.

 

All else equal-ish, yeah geography is important. But I don't know if I'd take a six-month career delay unless I had family circumstances and absolutely had to have a certain base.

Those of us who have been around a while know that six months can be an eternity seniority-wise.

 

I have a March 2023 class for the E175. I have emailed & called my recruiter to let them know I could start sooner as I already meet all ATP Unrestricted Mins. Anyone had any luck getting moved up to an earlier E175 class? I have had zero response from my recruiter. I did not get the above mentioned email about sooner classes on the CRJ.

Also, if I get based in BOI, which airlines do I get flight passes on? I plan to move to base (unless I get SFO or LAX).

 

if you want BOI base, then you want the 175.
flight passes on all of them

 

Thanks. How long to hold a line at Boise? I’d be living in base too.

 

Keep in contact with them. If there is an opening they could call with as little as a week or less notice for a class so long as they know you are wanting to start asap. It happens, and if you are flexible I am sure you will get in before March.

 

quickly, no more senior FO staying on the right seat.

 

Reposting a newbie question here that I posted in a different thread.
Can someone explain for a newbie how dropping a trip would work in theory? I.e conditions must be satisfied in order to be able to drop a trip? Do you/can you automatically get assigned another trip? (And in airlines which allow it, how does swapping generally work?)

 

This only applies if you're a line holder. There must be positive reserve numbers on the days you have a trip. Go to sked plus and drop the trip. Otherwise you can post a trip in open time (add an incentive if you want) and hope someone else picks it up. You can pick up trips on your days off from open time, unless you're restricted by your FDP limit. Historically, you were not able to drop anything because we didn't have enough reserves but on the FO side lately people have been able to drop trips again.

 

As you can tell by the crickets the answer is not very well at Skywest.
In order to drop a trip there have to be enough reserves available in base in the right length of trip to cover the trip and not take the reserve staffing down below min staffing for any of the days of the trip.
As seniority increases and trip length decreases, while trip quality increases, the likelihood of having those stars align increases to an very small number instead of an infinitesimally small number.
More likely you can swap trips, but crew scheduling has the super secret rule book on when that is actually allowed, and we are not privy to that rule book.
You can also post the trip for other pilots to pick up, but in order for that to happen they need to be available with the proper crew rest on either side of that trip, i.e. 30 hours off every 7 days, and the trip has to be enticing enough to have that unicorn pilot want to pick it up. Additional cash added to the trip posting can help.
Again, as trip quality increases with seniority increases, and trip length decreases you're more likely to find someone able and willing to pick up your trip.
Don't plan on being able to have trips dropped outright without calling in sick. they may end up getting picked up by other pilots as your in base seniority allows you to hold decent trips, but it takes short highly efficient trips and/or lots of cash to have that happen.