Originally Posted by
CaptUnderhill
Was just wondering what the average amount of
flight time
a month is for someone at a legacy carrier and regional carrier? Does everyone meet the monthly guarantee or do you go over? I know it all depends if your on reserve or not. Put if you could give me a ballpark average that would be great.
Concerning regionals it is variable as well as Scoop mentioned. My average "credit" hours per month in 2014 were around 55-60, but my actual "block" hours (flying the plane) were 27-30. At the regionals we do a lot of dead heading as well and on reserve you can easily DH to an overnight, fly one leg the next day and then two leg DH back to base depending on where you landed on your working flight.
Figure a typical month will have at least 30 hours of flying and will most likely increase in the coming future as regionals are having a hard time finding applicants to cover the flying for those that are leaving to go to the majors.
Hope this helps.