A lot depends on your base. The MIA folks mainly go south on short trips. I'm JFK and have been going east around the world in 14 or 15 days the last few months. You will see lots of HHH, RMS, LGG, LUX, DXB, PVG, HKG and SYD. They are almost hubs for us. And you'll probably learn to check in with the tower in the local lingo in AMS, FRA, KGF and NBO. I was commercialing this month and when I'm getting on the plane I see a Captain I've flown with getting on too. I ask him where he's going and he says KMG airport for a charter. You never know.

I don't know how Cliff can get a one day trip, shortest I've had was 2, MIA-DOV and they had to position me to MIA on day one. I guess if a MIA based pilot was flying the trip it would have been one day.

It's rare for me to be with other crew members more than a day or two. You'd think at least one F/O would be pared with a Captain for the month but I'm never that F/O. Scheduling adds and removes the 3 and 4th as they need.