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Anyone have an idea of how long it would take to hold LAX as a new-hire. How many years of reserve after that? Also what fleet is based there? Is it a pretty good mixture of flying?

Thanks!

1. Almost immediately
2. No way to tell how long on reserve.
3. 737/320/756/787/777(for now)
4. not as good as SFO. With the new way UA is going to schedule its crews and aircraft the flying may get worse/boring. LAX doesn't have a lot of destinations and if its all out and backs.......But, we as pilots don't know how this new scheduling technique is going to affect us yet.

Good luck getting an interview United is a great place to work.

There are unfufled vacancies for lax on both the 320/737. You can get it as a newhire. I was hired in April of this year and will be close to being a bottom line holder by December on the bus.

Thanks for the info! Out and backs sound great if you live locally, no?

well its not necessarily the crew that is being routed out and back (as in day trips) its the ships. They will go LAX - DEN - LAX -SEA - LAX.....

Instead of LAX - SEA - DEN - DSM - ORD - EWR......

How this affects the trip mix is yet to be seen. What is known is that you will be going back and forth between a single base all day then lay over at an outstation. The next day you may go to another base and then outback to that base and so on. Or you may just spend the entire trip going back and forth to LAX. That is why I said the trip mix might not be that good, due to the lack of destinations out of LAX.

They are doing this to try and keep a snow storm in EWR from affecting the entire operation. The LAX crews should be isolated along with the planes flying out of LAX that day.

We obviously need layovers for the late night arrivals/early morning departures at outstations. However, I feel that this new scheduling will greatly increase day trips and 2 day trips and cut 4+ days significantly. Well see......

Good info, thanks.

Almost like Shuttle flying.

Are they planning on getting rid of the 777's?

Only the ones that are not ETOPS.

well played

Can you tell us which 777 is not ETOPS on the UAL fleet?

Sure.

Here's the list:


End of list.

(Sorry. This whole thing was an inside joke going back five years ---shortly after the merger--- when there was a rumor floating around certain gullible CAL employees that UAL's 777s were not ETOPS.)

LA is going to have a sharp reduction in 777 flying next summer and an uptic in 787 flying. The 777s are being moved east.

To answer the OPs question, I am in the 15 Sep class, got 737 SFO during the class bid, put in my vacancy bid for LAX and was awarded it during the first week. And there were still unfilled vacancies at LAX, so you should have no trouble getting there.

How is the sleep room in LAX?

Freezing cold.

But otherwise suitable for a pre-red eye nap or a pre-commute midnight nap?

I've actually never used the sleep room...but the room with all the recliners is quite comfortable and it is very dark and quiet.

From a QOL standpoint, given the choices of 73/Bus and LAX/SFO, which would be the best choice to hold a line asap?

For example, would one try for 73 LAX or Airbus SFO? I'd be commuting from SLC, LAX is a slightly easier commute.

Hope my question makes sense!

RV8

My guess would be SFO guppy. Big, getting bigger, growing fast.

SFO 737. As pointed out above, big and getting bigger with much better flying than the A320. You'll def, hold a line much quicker in SFO.