Nothern

I've just been called to interview with Allegiant. I've heard one of the benefits is day trips. Is that for all pilots? Are there any commutable schedules?

freightdog

99% of time you're doing day trips. Big benefit of you live in base. Commutability varies by base.

fishforfun

It is true, but it is very difficult to impossible to commute so living in base is key. Read the Allegiant thread, will give you lots of insight to how the operation works. Big thing to understand is even if you live in base, the base may close tomorrow. HNL and ENV as the most recent examples. Stick to FL or LAS and you should be safe. Good luck.

HVYMETALDRVR

Without typing a book about it (because it can be a bit complicated to explain to someone who isn't familiar with our operation) as a junior FO you'll be in the perpetual TDY base and will likely be forced to commute, unless you lucky. This is because our flying fluctuates drastically from season to season depending upon the base your in. You will get 10 days off with blocks of 1-2 days off in a row here as a junior reserve FO.

Your time in this TDY base will depend upon where you live/want to be based. If you want the west coast? could be anywhere from 4-18 months depending upon what base you want out there. If you want/already live in Florida it should be much less. However, once awarded the your desired base you're still eligible to be TDY'd out as seniority dictates. So say, PIE in Feb and March has 15 FO slots (11 line holders and 4 reserves) and you finally can hold RSV there since this is the busy season. Then, come May/June time frame the flying slows down and there are only 13 FO slots in base, guess what? The bottom 2 are TDY'd out bidding where there are available openings. Sound complicated? It is and there are almost always mistakes, and re-bids.

And yes, the pairing themselves are pretty much all day trips. Depending upon your age/seniority and slots available in class you'll get the AB or MD80.

Papirry

Hello Nothern, do you have any contact number or email from HR o pilot recruitment dep., because I have my phone interview coming up, but I'm base in South America, and my concern is they are going to call my USA number and I'm out the States.
I will appreciate your help

Regards

statc

As was mentioned, the schedules are not very commutable (and other airlines don't fly to a many of our bases). You will likely start out based somewhere besides where you plan to live and you can also expect to be TDY quite a bit. If you want to upgrade sooner, it'll be the same story again. So it's not necessarily a good airline to start at if you already have a family. But eventually you can find a niche and enjoy the out and back schedule. Or at least until your base closes.