Junior Bases

Ask on here or on Flightinfo. Usually it's not published anywhere, it's mostly a word of mouth deal.
 
And it tends to change from year to year. Once upon a time MEM was super senior here, now you can get it right out of training.
 
kellwolf said:
And it tends to change from year to year. Once upon a time MEM was super senior here, now you can get it right out of training.
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Thanks for the responses guys. I am kind of getting ahead of myself a bit, but should I choose to go the regional route, it will depend greatly on base location.
 
For Comair, JFK is almost always available to new guys, and is the fastest way off reserve. CVG is usually available to new hires, but reserve is quite a while there. GSO is availabe every once and a while but it wouldn't take that long to get. On the CA side it is more senior. Hiring now is for atrition, DL doesnt think we should get any growth, but we shall know a lot more in a week or 2 once the RFP is released.

MCO, deam on. Its full of lifers that live there, 75%+ of the FOs could be captains elsewhere. Every once in a while a FO goes to Alegiant or a CA goes to SWA, but the base is not growing and people arent leaving there.
 
I realize you probably won't go freight, but as an example, bidding at AirNet was done weekly. There was no way to know which bases would be open unless you saw the bid sheet each week and kept up by looking up seniority numbers. When I started training at Airnet, TEB was very junior, but by the time I took my checkride it was filling up with people that weren't gonna bid out of it the first chance. But a couple months later it went junior again.

Besides, I bet most carriers wouldn't want to point out the most junior bases to prospective employees because they wouldn't want to make anyone biased. They want to keep each base staffed, despite how junior or senior it is.
 
Thanks for the input guys.

Here is the deal. I like where I live now, but there isn't jack for domiciles around here, unless I go with Air McScare (Mesa Air Midwest).

I don't know which carriers would be very commutable from here either. I realize that I may have to move somewhere else but I am not willing to go East of West Coast. Columbus is about as far east that I would consider and no further west than Wichita.

I guess I am hamstringing my options, but does anybody have any good suggestions?
 
depending on your "south range" Eagle is in DFW and XJT has a IAH base. IAH most likely will shrink relative to EWR when CHQ comes in (their flying will be in IAH). Comair has CVG and a good number of them live in KY (where the airport actually is). TransStates and RegionsAir both are based in STL. ChQ has IND, SDF, STL, CMH and maybe some more in the midwest.
 
desertdog71 said:
I don't know which carriers would be very commutable from here either. I realize that I may have to move somewhere else but I am not willing to go East of West Coast. Columbus is about as far east that I would consider and no further west than Wichita.

I guess I am hamstringing my options, but does anybody have any good suggestions?
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Network your way into a local corporate gig.
 
Not really. Just gotta network which means a lot more than emailing a couple of guys down at the airport that fly a Gulfstream! :)
 
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