New Hire Classes and Drops
04-12-2024 | 07:36 AM
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04-12-2024 | 08:39 AM
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Now that I've headed down memory lane, I remember that there used to be some hijinks associated with the ball. There were some elaborate (and some pretty stupid) plots by other classes to steal the ball and hold it for ransom (usually a round of drinks, IIRC).
Being the 8 ball can be a serious responsibility though. If you're the ball in the last class before hiring stops, you might have to safeguard the 8 ball for years until the next class comes along.
04-12-2024 | 09:07 AM
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If you a get 737 FO assignment in another base during BI, you can bid out of that base and over to SFO whenever there's a vacancy bid (which are running monthly now). Just for example, on the vacancy bid that closed 3/15 there were over a dozen unfilled seats on SFO 737 FO so even the most junior newhire could have held it.
04-12-2024 | 09:48 AM
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It would be pretty quick, probably a matter of a few months, particularly if you're on the 737. SFO 737 is very junior and almost always has unfilled seats on vacancy bids.
If you a get 737 FO assignment in another base during BI, you can bid out of that base and over to SFO whenever there's a vacancy bid (which are running monthly now). Just for example, on the vacancy bid that closed 3/15 there were over a dozen unfilled seats on SFO 737 FO so even the most junior newhire could have held it.
If you a get 737 FO assignment in another base during BI, you can bid out of that base and over to SFO whenever there's a vacancy bid (which are running monthly now). Just for example, on the vacancy bid that closed 3/15 there were over a dozen unfilled seats on SFO 737 FO so even the most junior newhire could have held it.
04-12-2024 | 10:05 AM
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For a base trade, there has to be someone on the other side of the trade, i.e, one pilot swaps DEN to SFO and another swaps SFO to DEN. If you don't have a trading partner, the trade doesn't happen.
For a vacancy bid, nobody has to take the other side - you just lateral over the base you're bidding into on the vacancy bid and create a hole in the base you're leaving.
04-12-2024 | 10:56 AM
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Not dumb at all! Just two ways of accomplishing the same thing. Never having done a base trade I'm not an expert but here's my understanding:
For a base trade, there has to be someone on the other side of the trade, i.e, one pilot swaps DEN to SFO and another swaps SFO to DEN. If you don't have a trading partner, the trade doesn't happen.
For a vacancy bid, nobody has to take the other side - you just lateral over the base you're bidding into on the vacancy bid and create a hole in the base you're leaving.
For a base trade, there has to be someone on the other side of the trade, i.e, one pilot swaps DEN to SFO and another swaps SFO to DEN. If you don't have a trading partner, the trade doesn't happen.
For a vacancy bid, nobody has to take the other side - you just lateral over the base you're bidding into on the vacancy bid and create a hole in the base you're leaving.
04-12-2024 | 10:57 AM
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Not dumb at all! Just two ways of accomplishing the same thing. Never having done a base trade I'm not an expert but here's my understanding:
For a base trade, there has to be someone on the other side of the trade, i.e, one pilot swaps DEN to SFO and another swaps SFO to DEN. If you don't have a trading partner, the trade doesn't happen.
For a vacancy bid, nobody has to take the other side - you just lateral over the base you're bidding into on the vacancy bid and create a hole in the base you're leaving.
For a base trade, there has to be someone on the other side of the trade, i.e, one pilot swaps DEN to SFO and another swaps SFO to DEN. If you don't have a trading partner, the trade doesn't happen.
For a vacancy bid, nobody has to take the other side - you just lateral over the base you're bidding into on the vacancy bid and create a hole in the base you're leaving.
04-12-2024 | 12:10 PM
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a small but important distinction.
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