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If you're the plug in ATL you'll be flying with me a lot.
Last minute reserve assignments to the only city in open time every single day --> Quito.
Its a glamorous job.
I can absolutely corroborate this. I was pretty close to the plug on ATL73NB for about a year, about 3 years ago. UIO is in open time nearly every night and you will be going there frequently. That said, I didn't really mind it. IMO it beats doing 5 legs a day on the 88.
That was before we changed the way we do RSV assignments though. It was relatively civilized at the time, and I was only doing a few trips a month. Now that we have RSV RAW buckets, the junior RSV's get beat up pretty good <---This is a major reason I haven't bid back to it yet.
The airplane has some great destinations and pretty easy flying. Even the worst trips on the 73N aren't that bad when lined up next to the 88 (or even the 320 out of ATL.) If that's where you're headed, you will have a good time. The Captains are pretty easy-going, with a few famous exceptions, and the technology from the glareshield down is pretty nice. The pay is only a couple bucks an hour less than the ER and the fleet will be growing over the next few years as the 900's come on board. Not a bad place to hang out for awhile.