FTv3

Check out “first world problem,” thread. Consider jumping through our system one day (night) and get a little first hand experience of it. Living in base is tough to justify giving up - do you plan to stay where you are for the rest of your career or do you have somewhere else you’d like to end up? Does your base offer the type of flying/planes (eg WB’s) you want once you’re senior enough, or do you have a commute in your future to hold that?

Commuting at brown can be really easy especially with paid tickets both ways. Couple that with layovers at your home town and you could be sitting really pretty with a little seniority. Reserve your JS on company planes and you’re virtually guaranteed to get to work (ymmv but many peeps here report not 1 single hiccup in 20+ years of JS’ing). It can also be a pain - SDF often a double legger on the pax guys, those paid tickets are usually priced on SWA making it hard to find competitive prices on the legacies to your hometown. Jumpseating on browntails into a trip is hit or miss: sometimes it’s not smart rest-wise, sometimes the arrival is past your signin time, sometimes you just have to come in a day early. But often the timing is just right and the stress is virtually non existent....

Banker’s hours factor: majority of block hours here are at night. Evening to morning stuff usually has a sleep (nap) opportunity. Lots of signin times between 1-3am. Intl stuff is plagued with 24 hr layovers. Yet, do the night hub stuff in Germany and you can actually stay on US time zone until the last get home day. Bunch of day flying scattered around too. No PBS, conflict bidding, strategic vacation usage can give you quite a bit of time off here.

You’ve tasted pax flying. Do you like the hassle of terminals, TSA, long walks to aircraft, esp with tail swaps, endless problems with passengers, long lines for TO, flow control, etc.? Flying at Fx/UPS is a nice change: in-house security, van rides everywhere, cleared for TO, turn R direct destination, get up and walk around the cabin/take a leak as you please - the whole experience is much, much easier.

Tough decision. Feel free to ask as many questions as you need here. Answers may fluctuate as holiday drinks get consumed over the next few days.... good luck.

c5pilot11

FJO’s are going out. Merry Christmas everyone. Thanks for all the wonderful advice and helpful info. See y’all next month.

apple123

Cjo Feb 4th!

C2078

Keep ‘um coming!!

viperdriver180

Anybody else receive a FJO for the 7 Jan class?

big red

Got my FJO as well for the 7th. I couldn’t be happier.

For those that want to know

First applications 2004-2007
Back in the job market after 11 years
Applied summer 2018 again in January 2019
Phone call Feb 2019 for Hogan
Hogan Mar 2019
Interview/pool invite May 2019
CJO Nov 2019
FJO Dec 2019
TT north of 15,000 PIC 4000
3 PIC types
2 job fairs 2018/2019
1 internal rec

C2078

Welcome aboard!!!

big red

That is appreciated!

skysharke

Was the FJO and email like the CJO?

Fermi Paradox

I received the FJO via email (just like the CJO). Timeline similar to Big Red.