Originally Posted by
Zoso
If you're not furloughed, you're commuting to Anchorage and sitting in a crashpad away from your family for 17-18 days a month- unless you decided to move there, which is insane because you should've learned your lesson to never move anywhere for UPS because they will furlough your butt in Alaska.
Being junior (10 years) at UPS is nowhere you want to be.
I'm pretty junior on the whale, and I don't sit in my crashpad for 17-18 days a month. I always bid VTOs, and usually end up with a couple of 12 day trips in a bid period (2 months). Sometimes I'll get a 8-9 day trip, with an out and back to PVG or HKG thrown in there during a month. It depends on what's left over, and how many senior to me go on vacation during that bid period.
Back when I chose to stand reserve in ANC, I would usually opt for two seven day reserve periods in a month. That's 14 days away from home.
During this next bid period, I have two 1 week vacation periods. I managed to conflict almost the entire VTO line I was awarded. I'm flying a total of (2) four day trips in the entire bid period (2 months), and they both start with a commercial deadhead to HNL from my home. Not too shabby for a junior guy.