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Old 05-10-2013 | 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by whtever
There's no way I would go to RAH. Quality of life should be your goal. Consider consistent scheduled 10-14 hour duty days, 5-7 legs a day, rarely is an overnight longer than 9-11 hours and with mx/wx/crew cancelations, your pay will suffer. To each their own, good luck!
This is so far from the truth I don't even know where to begin. My average legs per day is 3 with lots of 2 leg days. I have countless 4 to 6 hour duty days with long 25 hour layovers. Maybe once a month I will have a long 13 hour day but my average duty day is 8 hours. The average flight length is 2.5 hours with some 4 hour flights. New hires are getting a line with 14-15 days off. I had 17-18 days off a month when I was a senior FO on the 170. I never lost money one time out of 6 years with a cancellation. I was always reassigned after a cancelled flight which you still get paid if you do something else. If you fly a 78 hour line and all of your flights get cancelled for the whole month and you never work 1 minute you still get paid for 75 hours and lose 3 hours of pay. The choice is yours...1.5 years of reserve in a corporate style jet vs 1 month of reserve in an airliner.
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