Do I take the upgrade?
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Dang. For how long would I have to embrace the suck? Does seniority move far slower?
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Then once you change you'll be in a 24 to 36 month bidding freeze depending if you changed bases or not and can only upgrade on that fleet in that time.
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System seniority is what determines vacancy awards and relative seniority within base/equipment/seat (BES). You are given a system number on day one. Relative seniority determines your QOL. The more senior you are in your BES, the better trips you get, better vacations, better days off etc. Someone getting a NBCA award as a new hire would be super junior for years while senior pilots with lower seniority numbers bid on top of them. Most people don’t bid captain vacancies until they can do it at the seniority of their choosing, and every pilot already on the list when you show up will be forever be senior to you. Someone getting NBFO will gain relative seniority much quicker and enjoy a higher quality of life, although with a lower pay rate than a NBCA of the same seniority. NBFO is the lowest pay grade that we have and very few people will bid on top of you, especially on the 320/737 fleets. NBCA is much more senior and your relative seniority won’t move much for years due to others bidding over you.
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System seniority is what determines vacancy awards and relative seniority within base/equipment/seat (BES). You are given a system number on day one. Relative seniority determines your QOL. The more senior you are in your BES, the better trips you get, better vacations, better days off etc. Someone getting a NBCA award as a new hire would be super junior for years while senior pilots with lower seniority numbers bid on top of them. Most people don’t bid captain vacancies until they can do it at the seniority of their choosing, and every pilot already on the list when you show up will be forever be senior to you. Someone getting NBFO will gain relative seniority much quicker and enjoy a higher quality of life, although with a lower pay rate than a NBCA of the same seniority. NBFO is the lowest pay grade that we have and very few people will bid on top of you, especially on the 320/737 fleets. NBCA is much more senior and your relative seniority won’t move much for years due to others bidding over you.
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I don’t know very much about IAD, but my advice would be to gain relative seniority as fast as you can, and that will happen on the 320/737. Eventually the music will stop and seniority progression will grind to a halt. Being junior in a senior seat is not where you want to be. Personally, I stayed a 737 FO until my kids went off to college. I was super senior in my seat and had a great QOL. I may have left money on the table, but I was home for every holiday, every family event, I flew the trips that I wanted and when I wanted, and usually got first pick on vacation bidding. I then bid WBFO and then NBCA with the seniority to avoid trips that I didn’t want to fly and have pretty good control over my schedule. If I had it to do over I wouldn’t change a thing. All the money in the world won’t buy back time away from your family. Assuming that you retired from the military, you have a pension to make up for the difference in pay between CA and FO. Your focus from this point on should not be to have a schedule and life that is slightly better than what you had before, it should be focused on what is the best possible life moving forward from your first day of class.
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That’s the point.. if it’s not covered in the implementation LOA it takes effect DOS.. the specific paragraph about offering the slots to new hires is not mentioned in the LOA, only the part where they can start training is.. therefore they can offer new hires any unfilled CA vacancies effective DOS..
now they still have to to release all freezes before they can offer them to new hires however.
now they still have to to release all freezes before they can offer them to new hires however.
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Hello- I received my CJO last week. Pending this TA passes as expected and they offer me the upgrade what would my schedule and QOL look like? My background is 20 years of military flying so I’m used to missing holidays and weekends. Do I just rip the bandaid off and jump in? Or is that horrible idea? My number one priority is to be based out of DCA/IAD. Thanks!
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This is incorrect, and has been corrected many times. They can force new hires into captain as soon as the TA passes. The new hires cannot START CAPTAIN TRAINING until the new reserve rules are implemented. The new hires need 350 hours in type and complete the probation checkride. This will conveniently coincide to be about August 2024 when we will see the first new hire captains meet this requirement.
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