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Old 07-04-2015, 07:57 AM
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Deuce130
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As a new hire, the vast majority of your trips will start in domicile. You'll have to jumpseat in to MEM (or whichever base is your domicile) to start your trip, then jumpseat home when it's over. It sounds like you have a ton of options, so getting jumpseats should not be a problem for you. It would be years and years (think well over 10 years) before you'd be senior enough to fly double deadheads out of your hometown. By that, I mean the trip begins and ends at your local airport, and the flights in between originate from your hometown, fly to MEM or IND, then return to your hometown. Sometimes that has its own problems. If you're getting to your house at 0700 every morning, dog tired and grumpy, and you've got a wife and kids who are just getting up and moving...well, sometimes it's hard to get sleep!
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