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Originally Posted by ThumbsUp (Post 3634890)

I think you’re referring to maxgumby.com. I’ve always been curious why that site exists. Never used it.

Yes!, thank you sir.

I see all the 737 and 320 logic to get to DEN the fastest. I too live in DEN and will be starting soon. If a NH went 787, how long would it take said person to get to DEN? Ballpark guess is fine base on hire date of the most Jr FO on the 78 in DEN. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by pilotboy10 (Post 3635045)

who knows these days but right now around 2 years

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Originally Posted by pilotboy10 (Post 3635045)

If you end up on the 78, plan on commuting to the coastal bases for awhile….

I’d guess a couple years until your seat lock in SFO/EWR is up and you take the NB DEN position you could have gotten much faster if you’d bid it in indoc. 756 might give you a fighting chance. Only the 777 is a worse option than 787 for getting to DEN. Also every instructor at TK will go to line ahead of you.

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Originally Posted by pilotboy10 (Post 3635045)

Exactly 24 months to bid narrowbody

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Originally Posted by pilotboy10 (Post 3635045)

If you're 60+ and just want to fly WB for your last few years of your career it's not a bad idea. If you younger than that, then it's likely a terrible idea.

To answer your question, if the vacancy bid closed today the most jr DEN78FO would be 13,49x, which is probably 1 year. There's still a chance those folks get bumped though. For comparison, the G Line on 73 is 14,400 on 73's and 14,631 on 320's. Commute to global reserve on a NB that you could get to DEN and hold a line much faster than getting to DEN in a 78? For the same year 1 pay? For no global reserve requirement? And then when you see you are able to get DEN78FO you can just put in a vacancy bid and get there at probably the exact same time? You can do what you want, but that doesn't seem worth it on the first 2 year pay. Wide body flying will still be here in 2 years, just hang tight. When a new contract comes and incentivizes WB FO's to go NB CA you'll see it coming and be equally positioned to take advantage of that movement

It would be nice to have Contract First, then pilot's bids, then United next.

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Originally Posted by jalco4 (Post 3634850)

I start class next month as well with the goal of DEN. I would imagine the 737 is the path to faster seniority progression because of deliveries (growth). However, as a younger dude, and looking at the recent drops, it seems that 320 SFO/EWR might be what I get if I can avoid the 777.

Avoiding the 777 will not be a problem. The last of the leftover unfilled vacancies from February allocated to new hires are trickling away and on the current and last vacancies the 777 is going senior with no unfilled vacancies. This means very soon that no new hires will be seeing the 777.

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Originally Posted by Race Bannon (Post 3634895)

Guys that have CJO's can look at the pairings for different BES so they have some idea of what they might be getting into for their initial class bid. Especially since they can't look at CCS. Got a pretty good sort feature too to see destinations. Doesn't work for me with Google Chrome but works fine with Firefox and Edge.

Yeah, I understand why it would be attractive to someone who doesn’t work here, but might want to. However, it seems like it must exist for some other reason. Can’t imagine someone going through all that effort to inform people job hunting, particularly when it’s existed for years when we weren’t being much.