New Hire Classes and Drops
02-10-2022 | 01:55 AM
#1911
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I can only speak to SFO, but 756 goes to only 6-9 places, mostly things like EWR, overnight, back. Lots of hub stuff with some Hawaii and almost entirely 757 flying.
737 has a little bit of everything, thought it’s weighted to 4 day trips. Seniority progression is F-A-S-T, and being local, I was doing either what I wanted or when I wanted by the time I was about 65% in base, or maybe 12-18 months. My preferred method was Hawaii and Florida in the winter and cool places in the NE in the summer. Plus, you’d get to fly with me, and after seeing the influencer stuff going on in the haircut thread, you could get in on the ground floor of my new influencing gig.
Driving to work is great, driving to work in a junior base (if you can stomach the locale) is king. Where would you be living?
737 has a little bit of everything, thought it’s weighted to 4 day trips. Seniority progression is F-A-S-T, and being local, I was doing either what I wanted or when I wanted by the time I was about 65% in base, or maybe 12-18 months. My preferred method was Hawaii and Florida in the winter and cool places in the NE in the summer. Plus, you’d get to fly with me, and after seeing the influencer stuff going on in the haircut thread, you could get in on the ground floor of my new influencing gig.
Driving to work is great, driving to work in a junior base (if you can stomach the locale) is king. Where would you be living?
Don’t know where we’ll be living yet because we’re going to make that decision when I get my base assignment. Prefer Southern California but am willing to live anywhere nice within 2.5 hours of LAX or SFO and am open to any and all suggestions.
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02-10-2022 | 06:56 AM
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I was under the impression that LAX is the second smallest base behind CLE. I do prefer Southern California but I’m much more willing to go wherever I can have best quality of life the fastest. True, I’ll definitely look into that. Just figured I’d ask the forums for its wisdom
02-10-2022 | 07:08 AM
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I was under the impression that LAX is the second smallest base behind CLE. I do prefer Southern California but I’m much more willing to go wherever I can have best quality of life the fastest. True, I’ll definitely look into that. Just figured I’d ask the forums for its wisdom
02-10-2022 | 08:00 AM
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There is small like Cleveland and Guam, but LAX is not that. If you’re going to live in Southern California, even though SFO is a short commute, LAX would be a no-brainer. The seniority difference at the bottom is pretty small. CA bases all around are much less senior than the interior bases.
02-10-2022 | 08:15 AM
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So read through the forums here just to get my United Airlines knowledge up. I think this is the right forum to post this and just wanted to make sure I've reviewed everything correctly?
I live in Atlanta and would want to be based out of Chicago since I have family there. I'd start out commuting and then eventually move to Chicago. For myself, if I commuted from Atlanta bc of seniority I might have to leave the day before. That would not be a big deal for me since I can stay with family in Chicago. I'd want to fly narrow-body so 737's are a good choice for that and while it changes all the time right now the 737's have better trips than the A320. Also from reviewing this forum getting Chicago does not seem to be difficult.
My logic check? Thanks in advance.
I live in Atlanta and would want to be based out of Chicago since I have family there. I'd start out commuting and then eventually move to Chicago. For myself, if I commuted from Atlanta bc of seniority I might have to leave the day before. That would not be a big deal for me since I can stay with family in Chicago. I'd want to fly narrow-body so 737's are a good choice for that and while it changes all the time right now the 737's have better trips than the A320. Also from reviewing this forum getting Chicago does not seem to be difficult.
My logic check? Thanks in advance.
02-10-2022 | 08:35 AM
#1918
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So read through the forums here just to get my United Airlines knowledge up. I think this is the right forum to post this and just wanted to make sure I've reviewed everything correctly?
I live in Atlanta and would want to be based out of Chicago since I have family there. I'd start out commuting and then eventually move to Chicago. For myself, if I commuted from Atlanta bc of seniority I might have to leave the day before. That would not be a big deal for me since I can stay with family in Chicago. I'd want to fly narrow-body so 737's are a good choice for that and while it changes all the time right now the 737's have better trips than the A320. Also from reviewing this forum getting Chicago does not seem to be difficult.
My logic check? Thanks in advance.
I live in Atlanta and would want to be based out of Chicago since I have family there. I'd start out commuting and then eventually move to Chicago. For myself, if I commuted from Atlanta bc of seniority I might have to leave the day before. That would not be a big deal for me since I can stay with family in Chicago. I'd want to fly narrow-body so 737's are a good choice for that and while it changes all the time right now the 737's have better trips than the A320. Also from reviewing this forum getting Chicago does not seem to be difficult.
My logic check? Thanks in advance.
02-10-2022 | 08:41 AM
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I was under the impression that LAX is the second smallest base behind CLE. I do prefer Southern California but I’m much more willing to go wherever I can have best quality of life the fastest. True, I’ll definitely look into that. Just figured I’d ask the forums for its wisdom
02-10-2022 | 11:23 AM
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