777/787 ewr
 

What does reserve look like on these two airplanes? Do you get converted to short call a lot?
Are they mostly 3 days 4 days etc?
Looking to make a move from SWA after 6 years and trying to figure out some things.

Thanks.

I’m looking for the same information.

Also, what seniority would it take to hold a line on that fleet in EWR (which I assume is the junior base, or maybe SFO?) at the moment?

Junior line holder for Jan on the 777 in EWR was a July 2022 new hire.

Honestly, there's too much in flux now to make an intelligent decision. The inability to use Russian airspace has had a tremendous negative impact for the base. India (Delhi/Mumbai) flying, which was a staple and expanding (Bangalore?) went away. Even if China opens up, Hong Kong will be undoable without going polar and Beijing and Shanghai will each take about an hour longer than normal. Right now, over a quarter of the base is on reserve and close to half of the reserve days are converted to short calls. trip lengths have gone from almost exclusively 2-4 days recently to a lot of five and six day trips being added in. it's possible those longer trips, which seem to include a lot of flying for other bases, might be reduced if/when Russian airspace overflight comes back.

Hong Kong would be doable out of west coast cities without using Russian airspace. But it will be on the edge.

Out of east coast cities, you are correct.

The question was flying out of EWR. SFO-HKG should be no trouble at all. The problem with making predictions about flying out of any particular base on a WB is the destinations and equipment are subject to external factors. It won't settle out until China destinations and Russian airspace are available. Of course, then something else will mess up our Feng Shui.

flip side of that was the December line switching from a 2022 hire to a 2018 hire just because.

​​​​​​ So it ended up not really being a six-month to line holder?

for now…..the flying moves all over the place. All they have to do is move more domestic to SFO and the Gline will drop to 10 years real quick.