Originally Posted by
gipple
Most SWA pilots work two full time jobs. One spent flying airplanes and the other spent on the computer looking for more flying.
I'll admit that this made me chuckle.
Originally Posted by
ZapBrannigan
I spend WAY too much time on ELITT every month trying to get at least partial weekends off from my junior schedule. As far as picking up extra? I use text alerts and usually have some luck picking up a turn or two towards the end of the month, usually short notice or VPF
Perhaps things may be be different in DAL than LAS and I'll preface this by saying that
If I have the 25th OFF and am ready for ELITT opening, I have no problem turning a month of crappy weekend Fri-Sun lines into all three day partial weekend lines that at worst case start late SUN or end Early SAT and often weekday pairings totaling around 110 tfp, 16+ days off within an hour of ELITT opening in base. I actually monthly bid with this in mind and I'm a couple months junior to you but fairly even given our respective bases.
Is it a perfect system? Far from it.