Rog, so assuming you can't live in base, is there an adv to one acft over the other in the long run?

 

Something is not right with this statement. How are pilots returning having to pick their aircraft? The last redoc class had a Captain return and guys going to 777 and 756.. You telling me they’d go back to “class drops?” Nope!

 

I’m not sure about LAX, but SFO 756 flying is garbage. All 757, mostly back and forth across the country, lots of red eyes, with very few Hawaii trips. If you love EWR and BOS, and I mean a lot of it, then SFO 756 is for you.

 

LAX is just as bad, If not worse.

 

Yes, but it's one and done

 

If you were furloughed, you have to pick from what's available. Where is the confusion in that? That's how it's setup. Only if you were a voluntary furlough do you have "possible" options to get a CAP slot or wide body. The rest of the furloughs have to pick from what's available, but they get to pick one day prior to all the New-Hires; hence why they started on June 4th, and the New-hires start on June 5th. Out of the furlough returnees, they bid in seniority order.

There was actually 3 voluntary furloughs in the class. One took 737 CAP. The other two did not have the same options, for whatever reasons and picked 737FO

 

60 SFO 737 FOs?...
Time to beef up my suds budget. Half wingers are never 2 B thirsty.

 

If you don't live in base I would HIGHLY recommend the 737 or Airbus. If you can avoid the 756 do it. I got hired into the 756 as a new hire and I spent the next 3 years on reserve. It doesn't sound like you might know what that entails so let me explain a little.
Reserve means your essentially on call for roughly 18 days out of the month. All reserve starts out as a 12 hour call out so hopefully you at least live 12 hours away. That means if they call at 8 at night you better have some way of getting there at 8 in the morning which can be hard sometimes with flight schedules. I'd say around 30-50% of the time though you'll be converted to a short call which is a 2 hour call out. Which could mean a lot of flying back and forth from home to be in base for the call. Anyway you get the picture, commuting sucks, and commuting to reserve is awful. Pick the most junior fleet for where you want to end up to spend the least amount of time on reserve. That's just my opinion but I believe many will agree with me.

 

21 SFO 756
10 EWR 320
25 SFO 320
10 EWR 737
60 SFO 737
10 LAX 737

Welcome aboard to all. Hiring and growth are both very good things. Now if we only had hubs in the middle of the country and wanted to grow them.

WTF-O?

 

We do. Newhire vacancies represent pilots leaving those bases for greener pastures like IAH!(what was it 30 FOs into IAH last bid?)