Fossil fuel, if you check with Dave R., you will realise, that you cannot bid across to USAB. You can only bid mainline and once accepted, then hope a North American basing is open. Oh, and no turning back if you find out that a N.A. basing is not available after your accepted. Just another twist to make our lives more difficult.
Goonybird, why are you so upset with the ASL guy's. Again, you and others are terribly wrong for blaming them for CX management’s blunders. If I were an ASL F/O of course I would stay ASL and get my command early. Wouldn't you? Remember, the ASL guy's are only the symptom of the problem not the cause! As for salary, with provident fund it's just over 71K USD to start or 105K Cnd. and that’s not bad, even for a yank. For a Canuck, it's better than AC short or long term.