NYC Crashpad/Living

[JetPilot_Mike]

Just heard from a Chief Pilot that the Atlanta base is dead, and now they are turning their attention to possibly JFK. Anyone find a respectable place to live for a respectable price? I know apartments go for $2000 in Brooklyn.

Crashpads?

Thanks.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Kew Gardens.

Just a bus ride away from JFK...a bus and a subway to La Guardia...or a simple cab ride to either.

The place is crawling with airline folks, and it shouldn't be to hard to find a crashpad.

 

[sleeve]

You can find a crashpad around Kew Gardens for probably $150-200 a month, but for the most part there will be quite a few people living there so its not like crashpadding in cincy with three or four guys.

I've seen aprtments for around $1400 and up in the Laguardia area..A friend of mine moved there and was sharing a 2 bedroom and paid about $700 a month.

I've got a question,

I'm about 150 # or so away from the most junior captain. And wouldn't mind a NYC base being from upstate NY.

If they couldn't get enough Captins to voluntarily go to NYC and me being an FO would gladly go, would that mean I could go as a NYC based Captain. I think it would work out that way but am not sure since this would be the first time I've been at a company that would actually be opening and not closing bases.

 

[AirBoard]

Anything's possible in this industry but you'd be surprised at how many CA would take a NorthEast base, they may have been sittingit out for years. Then again they may all be comfortable where they are now - still 150 numbers seems like a long way to go.

 

[JetPilot_Mike]

I highly doubt they would jr. man an FO to captain. They would most likely just jr. man some captains there.

There were doing that in the brasilia, but i think that was a special situation at the time, with all the jets coming and the plan to get rid of the 120's.

 

[Anaconda]

the company also junior manned fo's to fly as brasilia capts in MCO, as i flew with several in that very situation. key seemed to be they all kept their bids updated (which showed they had the required amount of flight time)

 

[sleeve]

I know 150 seems like a long way but you'd be suprised how many FO's we have here that haven't taken an upgrade when they could have a long time ago.. I haven't counted but I'd guess maybe 75 or so atleast...so i'm figuring there would be a bunch of fo's ahead of me that WOULD NOT want to take an upgrade to sit reserve in NYC.

On the other hand I would put "CAPT. NYC" as my first choice so I wouldn't be a casualty of junior manning ,just would have a standing bid for NYC.

Granted when I started we were supposed to be junior manned to Dallas cause that was a sure thing, and just weeks ago Atlanta was all but a done deal. So I really don't expect NYC to "really happen", just doin some wishful thinking.