Las Vegas Base
 

Good Morning,
Just wanted to inquire about your base seniority levels. What is the most and least junior and how does Las Vegas play into that list?

Thank You

LAS
 

https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/spirit/116180-jr-bases-spirit-2.html

This thread says about 5mos as of Nov this year.

Based on the latest vacancy and the current standing bid, you can get LAS while in training. There’s a very small chance you may have to go to another base such as DTW, FLL, or MCO for a month or less until the effective dates of your LAS award. There’s not much growth in LAS. We are finally seeing some vacancy for LAS CA, so the senior LAS FO are finally upgrading.

Upper management has stated several times now that we’ll be growing LAS. I’m guessing double pumping some routes and maybe... just maybe international. For newhires that want LAS, it could become a pretty good deal in a not so distant future.

so to clarify which would put you closer in holding a line. FLL or MCO ?

Very close to the same. MCO might get a line the quickest.

MCO seems to be leaning senior compared to FLL. Boat fulls of new hires getting FLL but getting into MCO seems to take about 1-2 months of getting stuck in ACY/FLL first

Problem is most of those new hires never actually bid in FLL they transfer out before they get released to the line so you have a lot of artificial seniority there.

It won't be enough of a difference to really matter. Where do you live? Or are you looking to move to one of the two?

For those based in Vegas, what’s life like? I’ve heard more than a few pilots mention that the flights out of LAS are horrible but haven’t heard many specifics. How are the opportunities to pick up trips at premium?