Definitely take the job with United. If you are offered a class date with UPS, weigh the pros and cons and make your choice. You will be fine either way.

They only bumped 52/137 captains this go round. I would be surprised if there is any outside hiring for this year.

Being from SDF, chances are UPS would send you to ANC simply because that’s what they do.

Go to United and don’t look back,

tied to a place for 5 years is nothing, it will pass before you realize it. Commuting to ORD is a piece of cake. Think long term…

Always take a firm class date, and if offered a different opportunity later, you can make the decision then.

Commuting sucks IMO but ORD is probably about as easy as it gets between UAL, AA and UPS.

I'm surprised this realignment isn't larger in numbers, perhaps they want to do smaller bids to manage schoolhouse throughput and "clean things up" with regards to retirements and hiring, but that's probably giving them too much strategic planning credit. Training bid probably won't drop for another 4.5-5 weeks given the realignment/displacement cycle...with training starting pretty much immediately after the training bid award comes out.

In the meantime…sending the FQS thru schoolhouse

All you negative Nancies can quit whining…the appearance mirror is gone in SDF. All is right in the world now.

Where will it turn up next....

Probably don’t want us to see how bad we look after flying the next bid period schedules.

That’s so sad! I’ll miss seeing those teenage pilots that looked like they never sat even 1 night sort! Or had a legal adult beverage in their lives.

ANC, those guys probably couldn’t find a tie to save their lives:D