Eaglehockey20

Long time listener first time caller. Getting ready to bid for my initial drop and just curious as to which would get me to ATL the fastest, 7ER, 73, Bus? Looked at the bid packets for all 3 and don’t mind the flying on any of them. Just excited to be here!

tennisguru

It's basically irrelevant. You'll be able to hold ATL on any of those fleets on the first AE after you're hired, assuming you don't get awarded ATL on the drop.

ShegotheD

Tons of movement on the ER in ATL right now.

Tropical

New to the internet? Does complaining about someone complaining count as complaining too? Lol.

gloopy

That's two separate things that warrant a look.

I'm not comfortably familiar with the new PWA's ToC for LCA's. I heard there are improvements, but you may be correct in your implication that it should have been better. LCA's feel free to chime in with facts.

As for the regional LCA's arguement, I think its quite obvious that this is a very temporary bandaid...tourniquet to save the entire regional feed model from instantaneous collapse. We've all heard the stories of half a million(ish) per year regional LCA's and while that is a thing to some degree, its not typical even now, and it seems glaringly obvious that it won't sustain.

Its buying airlines minimum time to up-gauge, order mainline replacements and phase out or at least reduce regionals down to a more sustainable size. Eventually that size may be zero, but it seems at quick glance like half to a third of today's size will provide the needed relief. Major airline hiring will likely fall by half or more in the next year or three. That's not even including a severe recession or worse; we were always going to pare hiring after aproximately this year's 2K/yr. We haven't really come to grips with the coming recession, the banking collapse season or anything else like that.

Half a milly regional LCA's was something no one ever expected. It will be the stuff of crew van legends for eons. But I doubt it lasts. And I don't think many mainline LCA's would trade places with their regional counterparts.

gloopy

Welcome.

Like others have said, this is mostly academic.

Plan A: Bid anything ATL on your "drop" that you can hold. Done.
Plan B: Bid anything else based soely on what you would prefer to fly once you get ATL, which will likely be on the next bid.

Absolute worst case is that your plan B choice costs you a few months extra. That's it.

Since there isn't really any way to sharp shoot it better than picking something out of a hat, I wouldn't give plan B a second thought.

tcco94

Anyone have numbers for next weeks class

chrisreedrules

Can someone from the 4/4/23 class please PM me.

NYpilot2694

Title sort of speaks for itself, but I find myself in an interesting situation that’s a bit of a long story, so just wondering what the process would look like if I received a CJO but needed to defer starting employment for 6-9 months. Would I need to start the application/interview process over again? Or would that just be as simple as making a phone call to someone and saying hey I actually need to wait a couple months before starting to a date that was different on my application availability date?
Thanks in advance

Meme In Command

Are you military?