Originally Posted by
MagPBS
Pairing 101.
Unless you manage to do a hub to hub leg so where the following holds true.
1. First and last day will always be an odd number of legs. You either start at a hub and end at an outstation or start at an outstation and end at a hub.
2. All middle days will be an even number of legs. You start and end at an outstation.
3. Every day but the last is dictated by where we overnight crews and what flights we have to that city. Crew staging for overnights is the #1 driver of mid-trip days.
So if Mesa only services a city twice a day. Say the late night/early morning flight and then one at noon. Your crew swap has to happen at the noon flight.
This is the same at every airline.
(Every airline) except Allegiant. :-)
Thank you for the tutorial. I appreciate you
and your teams efforts on our behalf.
I wish we had more 28 hour 4-days (like some of our competition) and fewer two leg days in the middle. I would like to have a 12 day working month (and 18 days off per month) like some of my friends at other regionals.
My biggest complaint about flying at Mesa deal with its inept ability for the training department to get pilots to the line, and what that inept ability does to the QOL for line pilots.