Only on call until 8 hours after report time if you flew that day.

I hear you loud and clear!!!

Is MCO really a junior base now? I figured it would stay senior like ATL for quite awhile. I'm a little less than 2 years from military retirement, and MCO would be the top of my list for new locations. Here's hoping it stays junior.

It has had some junior vacancies move in recently, but it definitely is not junior overall. Movement there has been at a slug's pace for around a decade and will more than likely continue that way.

I wouldn't get to hopefully based on what's happened for a couple months now. And overall it looks like MCO is senior, with a few really junior people on the bottom. However, seem like all new hires has been getting any base other then ATL within a year, usually much less.

I'm gonna disagree with you guys.

Mco was fairly junior (at the bottom of the FO list) prior to the AirTran deal. The reason for it being so senior with stagnation in recent times was that along with Atlanta, it was an AT domicile and there wasn't enough room for everyone. It took several years for the pig in the snake to work its way through (on the FO side).

As long as swa doesn't merge with JetBlue, or dramatically shift flying and shrink the base, there will be a healthy amount of movement there for a new hire today. Mco is in the top 3 or 4 bases for retirement numbers over the next 10 years which is significant because it's also one of the 4 smallest bases. Plenty of guys are leaving the base to upgrade and not all the new hires in Mco will stay which will just make it more junior for the guys that come behind them.

Btw I predict that we will see a similar trend in Atlanta over the next 4 years. Once all the AirTran guys get in, followed by a handful of recent hires, I think ATL will go super junior since any new hire that lives in Atlanta would be crazy to pick Swa over Delta.

Hi. How many work days are junior pilots putting in? Junior as in less than 5 years in property.

I realize reserve is 15 day off....I assume everyone on reserve works 15/16 days a month. (True). I'm about least amount of days worked... I don't care about pay.

Thanks!

Bad news is reserve is 15-16 days per month and it's almost impossible to lower that. There's no way to drop flying at SWA, and nobody is going to pick up your reserve block. However, it does get better once you can hold a line.

I'd agree with you if you are talking about a timeline of the next 10-15 years. Right now it takes ten years just to hold bottom FO in Atlanta, and there are many AT pilots commuting to MDW, BWI, and HOU. Seniority at bases does change over time, Dallas going from senior to junior is an example of that, but Atlanta is going to stay senior for quite awhile and reasonable advice to a new hire who lives there would be to move or polish their Delta app.

I and my buddies who's schedules I follow, have been averaging 2-3 reserve days unused each month. This is over April and May of this year. We will see how the busy summer months go. I'm also guessing this fall will be pretty easy on the reserve guys, as we are hiring like crazy, but losing airframes. I live near my base and often get home before noon on my last day of a reserve trip.

Hope this helps.

This question has such a wide variety of answers due to the working habits of individuals here.
For flying your line only, 12-14 days a month.
Some are able to give away and drop days and get that number way down.
I bid a line this month that worked 11 days. I was able to drop 5 of those days so far.
Some guys will work more than 20 days this month of their own accord.
That's just SWA.