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Just looking for an updatye of how long the wait is it for an FO just to be able to get the 756, or wide body wide body in IAH now? How long of a wait to be able to hold a line of the 737?

Thanks

IAH 756 went almost to the bottom of the list last vacancy, all the way to a 167XX seniority number, so I’d call it about six months.

Probably closer to two years for the WB.

And about eight minutes on the 737.

To add on, how about for IAH 737 CA? A friend sent me the junior pilots in each category and all have around similar 13xxx pilots in it. Are they all similar timeframes to hold? Was also told ORD/EWR/SFO/DEN have 16xxx pilots bidding into it early. I assume IAH doesn’t have the same treatment?

There’s not a treatment really; however they dumped so many pilots in there to encourage people to bid NB CA pre-UPA23 that I doubt you will see vacancies there for a while.

IAH 73 is gonna see some weird dynamics in the next few years.

Prior to the new contract they vastly over-staffed IAH with 737 CA's because that's where the demand was. That is over and IAH has all the captains it needs for years. There will be occasional vacancies but expect very little seniority movement.

Holding a line as 73FO may take awhile too. But but, you say the current lineholder is only 9 months in (or whatever). Yes, that is true, but that person got in on the base nearly doubling in size. As it stagnates and the bottom 10% churns (and nobody can upgrade to captain) it's gonna take awhile to move above the g-line.

you may want to reaaaaaaly think hard before bidding 757 IAH. Those bottom end trips suck.

What's so bad about them? I took a quick look and they're not good but I don't think the bottom lineholder in any BES has a good line. SFO has more redeye transcons (the overnights aren't nearly as exotic) and my 756 EWR friends constantly complain about LHR.

I glanced through the trips that are sitting in open time. They look awful (to me. One man’s trash, though, I suppose.)