Originally Posted by
89Pistons
Years? That may be a bit of an exaggeration. Could be that way on the 787 but from the junior folks I know on the 787 they can get at least one landing a month if they are aggressive with trading and pick up. If you have strict bidding criteria like having weekends off and only going to one or two select cities on specific days then yeah, you might go a while without being able to get the flying on a specific trip leaving on specific days. But if you're open you can get landings.
It's a little easier for junior folks to get landings on the 777 because we have more domestic flying than the 787.
Yep last 2 guys I worked with in the sim only want Australia and weekends off. Neither one of them had had a landing since IOE almost 2 years ago. I flew a trip with a girl from IAH that was in the right seat she said it was the first time in nearly 3 years and she was a lineholder.
As a reserve I haven’t had a landing in over a year, and before that landing it was another year. Since IOE I have a total 10 landings in the plane in 2.5 years and 4 of those came when I bought trips for consolidation.