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Excargodog 02-24-2018 06:00 PM

Seniority of domiciles?
 
Could someone give me an estimate of the relative seniority of the various Spirit domiciles? A guesstimate even would be appreciated.

Ed Force One 02-24-2018 06:59 PM

Hiring a lot. They're all junior. Do a search, you'll find more of the same.

Dukeuno 02-24-2018 08:15 PM


Originally Posted by Excargodog (Post 2536356)
Could someone give me an estimate of the relative seniority of the various Spirit domiciles? A guesstimate even would be appreciated.

These are for new hire FOs not CA upgrade:
ACY is the most junior base.
DTW and FLL usually can be held around 3 months from date of hire.
ORD around 4 months.
LAS and DFW around 5 to 6 months.
It all depends what bases the upgrades are coming out of, sometimes these can be held sooner that what I stated.

putzin 02-24-2018 08:17 PM


Originally Posted by Excargodog (Post 2536356)
Could someone give me an estimate of the relative seniority of the various Spirit domiciles? A guesstimate even would be appreciated.

Just off the top of my head, 6 months to DFW and LAS I think. ORD a little less, ACY, DTW and FLL seem to be the most junior.

yh308 02-25-2018 12:12 AM

March most junior pilot hire date
DFW 10/2/17
ACY 01/08/18
ORD 11/20/17
DTW 12/18/17
FLL 11/27/17
LAS 11/13/17
and the top secret MIA base 02/05/18

mkfmbos 02-25-2018 03:01 AM


Originally Posted by yh308 (Post 2536529)
March most junior pilot hire date
DFW 10/2/17
ACY 01/08/18
ORD 11/20/17
DTW 12/18/17
FLL 11/27/17
LAS 11/13/17
and the top secret MIA base 02/05/18

Good info for a new joiner as ACY is basically uncommutable from most places. The next question is how long are people sitting reserve in those bases. Could be moot though. I heard reserve is going senior on the current contract. This will probably change beginning March or April. Seems like one can be anywhere within 4 months. Hopefully they order a ton of aircraft otherwise upgrades will be between never-maybe someday.

Dukeuno 02-25-2018 07:00 AM


Originally Posted by mkfmbos (Post 2536550)
Good info for a new joiner as ACY is basically uncommutable from most places. The next question is how long are people sitting reserve in those bases. Could be moot though. I heard reserve is going senior on the current contract. This will probably change beginning March or April. Seems like one can be anywhere within 4 months. Hopefully they order a ton of aircraft otherwise upgrades will be between never-maybe someday.

Most new hires only usually see ACY for maybe a month if that. For example last year I got done with OE in Jan. They had to build me a line in ACY for that month since the bids had already been published. I was able to drop all my trips out of ACY and pick up in DFW. A lot of my classmates were able to do the same.

I held DFW in March, I could have held a Relief line by May ( my hired date was Oct 2016 if that helps). I chose to stay on RSV because every other month I was bidding into a conflict, and for 38.50 hr I wanted to just stay home and not fly.:)
So I would guess RSV in a base as an FO can be anywhere from 2 month to 7 months depending on the time of year you get hired. Hope this helps

FNGFO 02-25-2018 05:19 PM

1st Month- ACY

2nd Month-FLL

3rd Month-held DFW which is my preferred domicile.

That seemed pretty standard in my training class.

bodean 02-25-2018 05:23 PM

Even if you get ACY off the bat, most people (me included) ended up dropping anything we were awarded and picked up at another domicile (in my case, DTW). I only saw 1 trip out of ACY, and they even positive spaced me to ACY for the trip.

Good luck

TheDudeabide 02-26-2018 12:43 PM

I was able to dodge ACY and got FLL right out of training. I got ORD the next month then DFW. Once there, I was able to base hop wherever I want to


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