Originally Posted by
slinger
Agreed. If Envoy had SAP, I'd be going there. As it stands, I'd rather forego the $$ and go to skywest or republic ahead of Envoy and the brutally bad schedules. You're locked in the same plane for 4 or 5 years (upgrade time), too, from what I understand. I live near ORD, but for some reason, I don't like the 145. I have something against lawn darts, I guess. CRJ is going away, so 145 is only game in town in ORD.
Problem is, all the trips suck at envoy. So you could drop trips to get more days off. But the pay would still suck. On the 700 our trips are from 13-18 hrs and a majority of the line are 11 days off. So you work 80 hrs and have 11 days off, or 72 hrs and 14 days off. No fixing that crap. Say you got an 80 hr line, meaning 11 days off, you drop a trip, you get 15 days off but 62 hrs. Sucks either way.