Originally Posted by
Sunvox
Let's talk about majority. Half of all flying is back side of the clock. OK if that's how you want to put it fine. I'll dig and find it somewhere, but if back side is flying between 1 and 4 AM body clock Legacy carriers have less than 5% of their flying in this time. When I fly Tokyo I fly 14 hours and land at 3AM. That's one of the worst. You guys sit around for half your career (15 years or more) waiting to take off at midnight. Worst yet Fed Ex starts trips all over their system so you have to dead head offline every where.
Your job is a nightmare. I NEVER EVER even considered working for a cargo carrier and I would NEVER EVER recommend that job to a newbie.
It'll never happen, but I'd love to see average age of death for cargo pilots.
I notice you like to comment on other airlines as if you know everything about them. Stick to what you know about your airline.
Your comment about how dumb it was to make domicile location a big part of your decision as to where you want to work in a separate thread I started was laughable at best. You took the time to respond to my thread with a very long post, but you lost me when you told me how dumb I was that the ability to drive to work was a huge part of my decision as to where I will spend the next 30+ years of my career.
There are people who read these boards looking for advice to make actual career decisions. Let the FedEx guys answer the FedEx questions and you answer the United questions.
PS if you knew anything about the Southwest route structure, the number of RON's in TPA, MCO, and FLL, and where our growth is you would know that saying Southwest may not always have a Florida base is like saying Delta may not always have an ATL base. Anything is certainly possible, but making such definitive claims about another airline that you don't really know about is ridiculous.
Cheers.