Originally Posted by
FLY6584
While I agree, I feel that commuting to work with Delta will be far tougher than driving to work with Southwest regardless of the flying I do.
Don't get me wrong I'd love to fly 9-12 days a month on a 777 out of ATL with all weekends off, but after running the numbers I've realized that would make up a very small part of my career. If I'm going to primarily be on narrow bodies most of my career I assume just stay with Southwest and drive to work.
I flew MD-11's internationally before Southwest and while it was fun at first the novelty eventually wore off. I love flying 2-3 legs a day at Southwest on 3-day weekday trips, but to each their own.
I think you're spot on about the very small window for wide body flying in today's Delta. If you're getting 2-3 legs a day on 3 day trips, that beats the heck out of 3-4 leg days on 4-5 day narrow body trips (and yes, it happens on the 737) at Delta. Finally, Marcal's experience is not the current situation at Delta wrt narrow body domestic flying. There are a LOT of redeyes in the narrow body bid packages that are often in the same trip with 3-4 leg days and 10-11 hour layovers (9 if you dead head out next day). So that whole feeling good and rested bit about Delta domestic may have been true in his time, but not today.
Hope all the best for you and the boys at SWA.