June 4th class drop UPDATED
#22
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!
#23
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Joined APC: Aug 2012
Posts: 456
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.
#24
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Joined APC: Oct 2009
Position: B756 FO
Posts: 1,288
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#26
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Joined APC: May 2012
Position: CAP A320
Posts: 300
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
#28
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Joined APC: Oct 2015
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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.
#29
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Joined APC: May 2011
Position: A320 Captain
Posts: 479
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?
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?
#30
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Joined APC: Jul 2015
Posts: 859
We do. Newhire vacancies represent pilots leaving those bases for greener pastures like IAH!(what was it 30 FOs into IAH last bid?)
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