Reserve Times
 

Can someone tell me what reserve times are looking like with the level of hiring occurring? How long to hold a line?

It’s entirely dependent on base and equipment. I’ve been here 2.5 years and couldn’t even hold PDX on the 175 yet I’m top 50% in DEN. I was 35% CRJ FO in DEN before I transitioned to the ERJ at 60%

If you can tell me what the price of bitcoin or dogecoin will be the day you hit the line, I'll tell you how long it will take to hold a line.
Reserve awards have been anywhere from the remainder of the month of finishing IOE to three years in the right seat, and up to 15 years in the left seat.
It all depends on the type aircraft, domicile, whether that domicile is growing, shrinking, going away, or opening. And each of those answers change on a daily basis.

When you say you were 35% CRJ and then ERJ 60%, does it mean you gained seniority by switching to ERJ or do you mean you regained 35% with ERJ and now are at 60%?

Also slightly off topic but do Majors mostly hire pilots from left seat or right seat does fine after getting jet TT?

The legacy/major carriers want TPIC time, which is only coming from the left seat. Some of the ULCC have occasionally hired folks with SIC turbine time before (aka your right seaters) and one or two just started hiring CFI/II/MEI's with 1500 hours and no jet time.

At least that is what my research is telling me.

My experience pre-COVID at UA. A class of 36 was a breakdown of 24 prior military, 11 RJ and 1 corporate pilot. All 11 from the RJ world were CA’s. 5 were LCA’s, 3 were former UA interns, 2 had parents who fly for UA and the last one was a training center dude at his regional. The lowest TPIC amongst the RJ drivers was 500hrs.

Here is a question I have on top of this.
I have over 1000hrs TPIC, however it is all single engine. I assume I would be fine after completing an ample amount (1000?) of SIC multi 121 time as most applications do not specify TPIC under 121 ops.
Is this assumption correct? or should I still be planning for upgrade ASAP and going back on reserve?

CRJ reserve times at ORD
 

Anyone have an idea for the reserve times on the CRJ at ORD?

which month would you want?

I lost a significant amount of seniority by going to the ERJ. To make the math easy, assume we have 100 CRJ FO’s and 100 ERJ FO’s in Denver. I was number 35/100 on the CRJ and then when I transitioned to the ERJ I was 60/100.

The vast, vast majority are hired from the left seat. The legacy carriers generally won’t look at you until you’ve got 1000 multi tpic. Spirit, Frontier, etc might hire from the right seat but it’s not the norm.