Vacancy Bid 14-12V (120 EWR FOs 737/320)
07-17-2014, 08:09 AM
#31
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Make sure you look at the recent bid awards. All weekend flying for the bottom 40ish line holders, LGA trips and largely non-commutable trips. For all these reasons you will see many of us that can hold a line bidding reserve. A 15 day line that is non-commutable means 18-20 days away from home, even worse depending on where you're commuting from. Throw in some early AM LGA trips and double duty to the West Coast and back, and a line may look less desirable. Just my $.02.
07-17-2014, 09:38 AM
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07-17-2014, 09:42 AM
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The latest bid is growing LAX 737 about 30% by Nov. Like you I am scratching my head at where they think these planes are gonna go since the uber guppy cant park at the 80 gates and we gave up 4 gates in T6.
07-17-2014, 10:27 AM
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They will probably put the guppies on the RJ parking area just east of T-8 and bus people out there to them. That would seriously not surprise me.
07-17-2014, 10:29 AM
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Wow! That would seriously not surprise me as well...we are sooooo *!!!!!!
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07-17-2014, 03:56 PM
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Its about 75% that we have a gate available in LAX when we land. That's not the case for almost any other station. Probably 95% at other stations. And this is in an airplane that can fit at about any gate.
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07-18-2014, 04:20 AM
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07-18-2014, 05:11 AM
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I live in Dayton, Ohio... Commuting will be a fact of life, perhaps forever (though a move to New England may happen before retirement). What I like to fly: anything in UAL's fleet suits me just fine. I know. Boeing but I'm not opposed to learning something new. How fast? Well, I am prepared to deal with reserve for a couple of years (in between leaves for military duty)... So the question is: Are the trips pretty similar out of EWR?
07-18-2014, 06:07 AM
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Make sure you look at the recent bid awards. All weekend flying for the bottom 40ish line holders, LGA trips and largely non-commutable trips. For all these reasons you will see many of us that can hold a line bidding reserve. A 15 day line that is non-commutable means 18-20 days away from home, even worse depending on where you're commuting from. Throw in some early AM LGA trips and double duty to the West Coast and back, and a line may look less desirable. Just my $.02.
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