Originally Posted by
Stinger6
Ridiculous information. The pilot is asking a valid question. "Judge for yourself?" He (or she) can't; this information is available on Kayak.
Could someone please answer the question that a lot of have about lines, as opposed to just sending out the whole schedule? What are show times like? What are typical city pairs for your base, etc? Is your first day of reserve a 12 hour call out or airport ready, for instance?
It's a QOL question. And it's a "do I need a crash pad" question.
The flight schedule FROM Costa Rica TO Los Angeles is not helpful. You're just being, oh...what's the word?
When you’re junior at any airline you will have schedules that are hard to commute same day on both ends. At Horizon especially in the outstations there are many early shows and late finishes. This will require you to most likely spend the night in base on either end if not both ends. Until you gain some seniority and figure out how PBS works that is just the reality. Seniority is the name of the game as a commuting pilot, being junior just plan on burning a few extra days off commuting.
As far as trip pairings there is a mix of 2,3 and 4 days. Sometimes you will have back to back trips, being gone up to 5 or 6 days before a few days off to commute home. Example : Monday you start a 2 day trip at 430am. You comeback at 3pm on Tuesday and have a 5am show Wednesday for the 3 day getting back Friday maybe around 1130 or midnight. Just in that scenario you will need to be in base three nights, Sunday night, Tuesday night and Friday night. Unless you want to buy a hotel room on the nights you’re in base. I recommend a crash pad. Good news is on the Q in places like MFR the pads are cheap (sub 200). In SEA the crash pad will cost a bit more (around 250-300).