AA/US-AW. Now the fun begins.

Derg said:
Commuting to reserve is hell.

I will fly to Orlando and with my Star Wars Blaster and engage you in battle if you take that decision too lightly.
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Unfortunately when my time comes, it will be SFO from EWR. Not that I want to do it, but by then I'll have ~ 12k hours and zero TPIC. At some point, you gotta get that on the resume. So as much as I hate to say it, my first upgrade opportunity will be a transcon commute to reserve CA. Of course I'll leave NYC CA as #1 always.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Unfortunately when my time comes, it will be SFO from EWR. Not that I want to do it, but by then I'll have ~ 12k hours and zero TPIC. At some point, you gotta get that on the resume. So as much as I hate to say it, my first upgrade opportunity will be a transcon commute to reserve CA. Of course I'll leave NYC CA as #1 always.
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I had dinner with one of your senior LAX FOs last night and he said the last upgrade class had 1 guy go to NYC. Probably won't have to commute too long if at all when your time comes.
 
Kingairer said:
Basically they, usual suspects, believe a new non Usapa committee will be established and will not have to support Nic. Third lister, what's that?
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"I think it's them Express pilots that fly those 190 RJs."

(Yes, folks, we still do have guys that don't believe the 190 is mainline.)
 
BobDDuck said:
I had dinner with one of your senior LAX FOs last night and he said the last upgrade class had 1 guy go to NYC. Probably won't have to commute too long if at all when your time comes.
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Yeah there was one. But he was a previous by-pass upgrade guy. So he's still "more" senior than our junior upgrades. And, it was a fluke award. NYC CAs are full so there shouldn't have been a vacancy. One current CA had "accidentally" set/submitted a transfer to the west coast and that vacant spot created an upgrade opportunity for this FO into NYC. Once the dust settled, the company allowed that CA to keep his NYC CA base, and still allowed this FO to stay in New York as a new Captain. The cap for NYC is 53 crews and as a result of this small hiccup/screw up, it is now 54 CAs. Good on the company for making it work out for both involved, they could have easily screwed one or the other.

Point being, it's gonna be a looooong time LOL
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Unfortunately when my time comes, it will be SFO from EWR. Not that I want to do it, but by then I'll have ~ 12k hours and zero TPIC. At some point, you gotta get that on the resume. So as much as I hate to say it, my first upgrade opportunity will be a transcon commute to reserve CA. Of course I'll leave NYC CA as #1 always.
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Unless you're trying to leave I would think this is a bad move.
 
ERfly said:
"I think it's them Express pilots that fly those 190 RJs."

(Yes, folks, we still do have guys that don't believe the 190 is mainline.)
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I was coming or of SAT the other day and the Charlotte Airbus flight cancelled so the crew was deadheading on our flight. The captain of that flight comes up and says don't mind me I've never seen one of these before and wanted to check it out. Are yal based in Pittsburgh? Hahahaha
 
Do they have long call at virgin? I commute to reserve by choice (for now) and I haven't had less than 16 full days off at home in the last 4 months. I'm already regretting going back to philly to hold a primary line. I'll be home less than when I was on reserve.
 
AAPalmTree said:
Unless you're trying to leave I would think this is a bad move.
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In a way I do too, but keeping in mind we do quarterly airport bids in which pilots have a chance to change bases but only in their own seats (unless an upgrade vacancy exists). So once you get the left seat, then every quarter you have a chance to move around. NYC is already filled on CAs. But if any of them bid over to SFO or LAX, then that creates an opening for a current CA from SFO or LAX to come to NYC. So even if you hit stagnation in terms of upgrades, there still could be movement amongst the bases. All this is way down the road and nothing I have to worry about at the moment. Who knows, by then we might actually be getting 6-7 planes a year and have a nice pace for movement and/or maybe DAL becomes an ALF base, that would really shake things up in terms of people base bids.
 
L-16B said:
Do they have long call at virgin? I commute to reserve by choice (for now) and I haven't had less than 16 full days off at home in the last 4 months. I'm already regretting going back to philly to hold a primary line. I'll be home less than when I was on reserve.
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We do, but you can be converted a couple times per month into short call so what's the point. And long call goes senior for the reserves (for obvious reasons). When I get the upgrade I'd be the most junior bottom reserve CA. This is still several years from now so who knows how things will look then?
 
L-16B said:
Do they have long call at virgin? I commute to reserve by choice (for now) and I haven't had less than 16 full days off at home in the last 4 months. I'm already regretting going back to philly to hold a primary line. I'll be home less than when I was on reserve.
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Reserve in PHL is bad now. Has been a few months. I was transitioned 10 days in March. After that I started bidding blocks. 16-17 days off with 90+ credit...my awarded lines have had 18-19 off. Except for July. July sucks. I'm riding the bid sheet hard this month. I'll do blocks over the summer and maybe go back to reserve in the fall. We'll see. There are half as many reserves in PHL as there were 6 months ago.
 
wheelsup said:
Reserve in PHL is bad now. Has been a few months. I was transitioned 10 days in March. After that I started bidding blocks. 16-17 days off with 90+ credit...my awarded lines have had 18-19 off. Except for July. July sucks. I'm riding the bid sheet hard this month. I'll do blocks over the summer and maybe go back to reserve in the fall. We'll see. There are half as many reserves in PHL as there were 6 months ago.
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Yeah CLT was a 50/50 split between long and short but not anymore. It's like clockwork though for me, I usually do a 3 day redeye a week, ocasionally add in an all nighter. I've still yet to need a hotel room in my 4 months of doing it, so I'm happy. There's a lot more to pick from in CLT than PHL, I've been watching the bid sheet.

I turned an 11 day redeye block into a 14 days off and 3 weekends off 80 hour credit for august. I'm no expert with SAP, though so I'm sure I could have done better. Doesn't seem like there is much open time in PHL to bid sheet out of.
 
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