yes, just look at the last vacancy bid under crew resources

 

Attention...

For any question about "how do I get speed / flexibility / seniority / QOL as a new hire, let me summarize the past 10,000 posts on this subject:

Bid the 737 to the base of your choice.
Or a 737 to the closest base... since you can lateral as soon as a slot opens up. Which won't be long.

And if you're DYING to fly the 757, just bid the Guppy anyways... do it for 1-23 months... and bid to the 757 with NO additional freeze, once you have a modicum of SA on what life at UAL is like as a Guppy FO.

Or just bid the biggest thing you can get anywhere and expect to sit reserve for a couple of years.

Your call.

But honestly... does it take this many posts over the past 5 years to understand this?

p.s. "I hate going back to TK" is a common excuse to avoid doing more training. Keep in mind that when you go from the 737 to the 757, it's about 20 days over the course of 4 weeks. It's not 4 months. And you go home on the "weekends" if you want. It's not a hardship tour.

 

Your advice is correct, but you don't have to be a dick about it. This is the first month that anybody has gone through basic indoc since Before Times. The landscape has changed, and previous threads on the same subject are buried 6-9 pages deep. If it somehow bothers you, then scroll past, and maybe the thread will die. We should all be happy that people are asking these questions.

 

You're welcome.

 

lol.. I thought it was great

 

This is spot on. And to add/remind. People are coming to work at UNITED as a whole and all stated so in their interview process. Y’alls timing is great but remember that their are guys and gals here that got stuck for YEARS on fleets they didn’t necessarily want. Dont get online and ***** that you may have something undesirable for a few months.

Like I said, your timing is gonna be great, movement will happen but keep the bigger picture in mind and carry a little bit of patience. Best of luck to all.

 

So.... back to the point of the thread.

Any word on today's drop?

 

“Timing is everything”… covers most things in life.

 

6/22 Drop: 38 people in class

21 737 must fills - EWR SFO LAX GUM
15 320 must fills - EWR SFO LAX
2 756 - EWR or DCA

756 both went in the top 10. The bottom 11-12 all ended up with the bus. 4 took GUM.

 

Can’t believe 4 took Guam. That’s what I was hoping for out of training, but it looks like all the spots are about gone.

Can someone explain the DCA in the drop? I thought IAD was the domicile, and that’s one of the locations that we are interested in being based as quickly as we can get there. We want to get as far to the west as SC will allow and still meet the 2.5 callout for IAD. So how does DCA work? When based out of IAD, do you also fly out of DCA? Do you get paid differently? What are the reserve requirements for that? Thanks