The website is up for WO guys to put their pref/bid at MDA. It looks like 3 classes of 12 each or 36 FO's for July. I would assume the same rate after that per month. I hope that this opens some room at ALG/PDT so that I can get back to the left seat on the Dash. I'm not sure though as we have attrition over to MDA we also have the magic dissapearing Dash fleet so we'll have to see.
Looking at the CEL I'm just about in the center of the 1074 ALG, PDT and PSA guys listed. Therefore I'm looking at 500 calls before they get to me. There are 115 or so PSA, 190 ALG and 200ish PDT senior to me. I don't think many of the PSA guys will be takers as the 115 PSA guys are all capts at PSA. I suspect that half of the ALG and Half of the PDT guys senior to me will take a MDA position. With this assumption I can say that their are about 100 alg and 100 PDT guys wanting MDA positions ahead of me. Toss in 30 PSA for good measure and we have 230 guys on the CEL that go to MDA before me. At 36 guys per month (230/36=6.6) thats 6-7 months to get to me. If all 500 or so take it it will be 500/36=13.6 or about 14 months.
As of now I bid for Capt MDA as getting back to the left seat on the dash is the most important thing for me. Down the road in a few months if it looks like we wont be able to reupgrade at PDT (all dash 8 at PDT by then) then I may as well head over to MDA.
Looking at the CEL I'm just about in the center of the 1074 ALG, PDT and PSA guys listed. Therefore I'm looking at 500 calls before they get to me. There are 115 or so PSA, 190 ALG and 200ish PDT senior to me. I don't think many of the PSA guys will be takers as the 115 PSA guys are all capts at PSA. I suspect that half of the ALG and Half of the PDT guys senior to me will take a MDA position. With this assumption I can say that their are about 100 alg and 100 PDT guys wanting MDA positions ahead of me. Toss in 30 PSA for good measure and we have 230 guys on the CEL that go to MDA before me. At 36 guys per month (230/36=6.6) thats 6-7 months to get to me. If all 500 or so take it it will be 500/36=13.6 or about 14 months.
As of now I bid for Capt MDA as getting back to the left seat on the dash is the most important thing for me. Down the road in a few months if it looks like we wont be able to reupgrade at PDT (all dash 8 at PDT by then) then I may as well head over to MDA.