Originally Posted by
Free Bird
T, you should bid narrow body domestic and do a 4 day trip with 17 legs on it. 5 legs a day is great after waking up at 0330! Just for fun bid RES for a few months in a row. You obviously will not do that, but if you did, you might see things a bit differently.
We have all done those trips. You seem to forget that everyone starts at the bottom. I used to get assigned 4 day trips with 3 east coast layovers all with 4 to 5am pickups. Waking up at midnight to 1 am body time 3 days in a row to fly 4 legs was not fun. It was a big consideration in my decision to move back east. We were able to eliminate those trips with better rules and a 727 that was almost planted in the pine trees 10 miles short of the runway in ATL.
We also used to do tag ons to all nighters from the west coast. Always fun to fly all night from SFO to ATL and then sit for two hours and fly to TPA. Amazingly enough we had guys ***** when ALPA was able to stop that practice because now the trips paid less!