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Old 12-22-2019 | 06:02 AM
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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?

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Old 12-22-2019 | 08:13 AM
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https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/spirit/116180-jr-bases-spirit-2.html

This thread says about 5mos as of Nov this year.
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Old 12-22-2019 | 08:38 AM
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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.
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Old 12-25-2019 | 06:59 AM
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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.
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Old 12-25-2019 | 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Silver02ex
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.
so to clarify which would put you closer in holding a line. FLL or MCO ?
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Old 12-25-2019 | 04:53 PM
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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.
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Old 12-26-2019 | 02:45 PM
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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
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Old 12-26-2019 | 03:03 PM
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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.
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Old 12-26-2019 | 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by korg128
so to clarify which would put you closer in holding a line. FLL or MCO ?
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?
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Old 12-30-2019 | 06:30 PM
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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?
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