Originally Posted by F15andMD11

Not exactly. The bottom 5 ORD 737 FOs are all base trades. The true jr pilot is about 1k from the bottom. Sorry, but when I hear anyone say ORD is going jr it gets my antenna up.

Originally Posted by JurgenKlopp

In general most airline pilots

1) Find the concept of taxation morally unacceptable
2) Prioritize the ability to easily use a firearm on large acreage

Thus at United most commute. To each his own. For me all it takes is a long training cycle to appreciate tge massive marginal utility I gain from driving to and from work.

Originally Posted by Sunvox

Actually lots of airline guys close to me including UAL FOs with families. They're just not in Pound Ridge where I am, but rather nearby towns with much the same feel but a few less celebs. Plus bad for me, but great for anyone wanting to move to the Northeast is the fact that home prices in our area are down 30 to 40% because of the changing demographics, plus Trump's SALT rewrite, and the area never fully recovered from the '08 '09 financial crisis when several large employers got whacked including Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, GE Capital, and several others not to mention IBM closing their Somers campus which employed over 3000 at it's peak.

Point is the Northeast has some awesome communities with superb schools, beautiful landscapes, perfect weather (if you like seasons), and not nearly as expensive as some think plus no fire ants or poisonous snakes or spiders





Sorry, if you thought that was meant for you. It was not.

Originally Posted by Flt1ok

Take a gander at the last vacancy bid award. ORD 737 FOs at 13120s.

Originally Posted by Bhramafear

You described your neighborhood and the average guy doesn’t live there. Yes with our pay right now in the current economic climate we should be able to live comfortably just about anywhere. Call me paranoid but I don’t plan on it being this good until I retire. I watched my father lose his retirement in the lost decade while I sat at a regional for over 10 years. Afford is all relative, some of my neighbors can “afford” to spend every penny. I can only afford saving as much as possible and maybe that means a commute.

Originally Posted by Sunvox

Yes, the town I live in is mostly professional's, but just like any place else there are plenty of "average Joes" here as well.

One of our closest friends is a single mom living half a mile away who works as a secretary in a vet office. She chose to live in Pound Ridge because of the schools, and I'm happy to report her daughter is a sophomore at Middlebury College in Vermont where she is studying Biology in hopes of making it into vet school.

Originally Posted by F15andMD11

Dang it! I hate when I think I know something only to later learn I didn't.
The old saying, you can keep quiet and let people think you're dumb, or you can open your mouth and remove all doubt. LOL!

Originally Posted by CLazarus

Assuming you get the 737 or Bus and are o.k. with commuting to reserve, then I'd say ORD or DEN depending on which base is more "junior" when you can bid it (right now DEN is senior to ORD, but that might be changing as DEN looks set for some growth and ORD is choked off by gate availability for a few years).