UAL Bases by seniority

[eaglesview]

Our 757 do a good amount of domestic flying. Off hand I can not think of any international flying they do unless you are counting Hawaii or the carribbean as international. All of the Europe flying in that fleet is on the 767 to the best of my knowledge. I am not on that fleet but I think that info is correct

Your assunptions on the fleet seniority within the base are correct. IAD has a very good reputation as a base, you'll like it there.

 

[Furloughed80]

How are the SFO 767/757 trips structured? Mainly domestic? Flights to Hawaii? LAX turns?

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Denver is our most senior base by a good amount. I would think after the merger it will go very senior as CO pilots that still live there choose to give up the commute. I would guess the same will happen in CLE assuming that is a senior base for CO.

Wondering if there will be a fence to bid new domiciles or will the senior guys at UAL and CAL get to force out the junior guys right away....

IOW, for a junior DEN based UAL pilot... how soon should be prepare to move his family.... or start the commuting life...

One of the best "deals" UNICAL offers the CAL guys is nice domciles.... Depending on CAL seniority a pilot could say "Hey honey instead of living in HOU/EWR... how does DEN, IAD, LA, SFO or SEA sound?



Seniority has its rights, perks.... and privileges!!

 

[eaglesview]

Wondering if there will be a fence to bid new domiciles or will the senior guys at UAL and CAL get to force out the junior guys right away....

IOW, for a junior DEN based UAL pilot... how soon should be prepare to move his family.... or start the commuting life...

One of the best "deals" UNICAL offers the CAL guys is nice domciles.... Depending on CAL seniority a pilot could say "Hey honey instead of living in HOU/EWR... how does DEN, IAD, LA, SFO or SEA sound?



Seniority has its rights, perks.... and privileges!!

Time will tell. Nobody knows what is going to be negotiated. Remember that one persons garbage is another's treasure. I will welcome the chance to get back to the northeast and bid EWR.

 

[rumrunner300]

Wondering if there will be a fence to bid new domiciles or will the senior guys at UAL and CAL get to force out the junior guys right away....

IOW, for a junior DEN based UAL pilot... how soon should be prepare to move his family.... or start the commuting life...

One of the best "deals" UNICAL offers the CAL guys is nice domciles.... Depending on CAL seniority a pilot could say "Hey honey instead of living in HOU/EWR... how does DEN, IAD, LA, SFO or SEA sound?



Seniority has its rights, perks.... and privileges!!

Nice try flamebait.

Domicile assignments are just like seat/fleet assignments, the only way to be "forced" out is if the company reduces the size. If the company subsequently increases the body count, then seniority is the rule and there is no right of first refusal.

rr

 

[Phrogs4ever]

There will be no forcing juniors out of base. You can only bid what is vacant.

 

[jonjuan]

One of the best "deals" UNICAL offers the CAL guys is nice domciles.... Depending on CAL seniority a pilot could say "Hey honey instead of living in HOU/EWR... how does DEN, IAD, LA, SFO or SEA sound?



Seniority has its rights, perks.... and privileges!!

One thing HOU has is it's great cost of living which is probably 1/2 of each of the ual bases. This significantly increases cal's relative pay. can't imagine anyone entranched in Htown would want to move to sfo,iad, den, la, or sea. Of course, seniority prevails.

 

[jonjuan]

There will be no forcing juniors out of base. You can only bid what is vacant.

Similar to what southwest does. Gonna be hard to force many out of iah.

 

[Jetjockey]

Force??? I'm sure many will leave as soon as DEN, ORD, SFO, IAD, and LAX are available to bid vacancies.

 

[rumrunner300]

One thing HOU has is it's great cost of living which is probably 1/2 of each of the ual bases. .

That is because it is Houston, which is 1/3 of the reason I never applied to CAL when they started hiring (BTW, this decision will come back to bite me in the a$$.....HARD). The other two? EWR and CLE.

rr

 

[whatitdoing?]

I strongly recommend IAH, it's a wonderful base with mild temps and no mosquitoes. We have a very low crime rate and illegals are kicked out immediately. We have rolling hills and beautiful views of oil fields. If anyone needs any help getting set up here, come on down. You won't 'regret' it....promise.

 

[Hvy]

How are the SFO 767/757 trips structured? Mainly domestic? Flights to Hawaii? LAX turns?

ALL domestic. Lots of Hawaii. Lots of transcons. Other crappy stuff mixed in.

LA turns every so often. Fair amount of equipment subs for broke dick airbuses.

 

[Flyforyou]

I strongly recommend IAH, it's a wonderful base with mild temps and no mosquitoes. We have a very low crime rate and illegals are kicked out immediately. We have rolling hills and beautiful views of oil fields. You won't 'regret' it....promise.

That's some funny sh!t right there...

 

[manflex srs rwy]

Wow...I'm surprised that SFO is/was junior. I guess it's the cost of living. ORD I can see and even IAD (cost of living) but I would not have guessed SFO being junior.

What kind of international flying/equipment do you guys have out of IAD?

Thanks to both posters for answering this question. Reason I'm so curious is that while we currently live in Houston, we're seriously contemplating moving back east and hence the reason for wanting to know the type of equipment that UAL has been flying out of that base.

We're actually considering moving to Raleigh and commuting to IAD but I would only want to commute to larger equipment flying international stuff.

Thanks again!

Knock yourself out . . . as soon as you have the seniority to hold that. 14 years longevity sounds about right.

 

[SoCentralRain]

Looking to find out how senior the United bases rank. I'm guessing IAD is one of the more junior bases but that is purely a guess.​

SEA has been the most senior UAL base for years. Then DEN, LAX, SFO, ORD, IAD.

SCR