Originally Posted by PurpleToolBox

Depends completely on your seniority and aircraft.


FedEx management put out a statistic a while back that 60% of our flying was "night" and 40% "days". What does that mean?


Night flying refers to flying back and forth to one of our hubs for the night sort. The night sort usually occurs around 1am. The flights come in before that. You sit during the sort. Then you fly back to your destination afterwards.



Day flying refers to flying back and forth to one of our hubs for the day sort. The day sort is around 2pm.



777 flying is purely long haul international. Most flights are at least 7 hours long, meaning you'll transit time zones and see the sun go up and down .... or up and down again on your flights just like you would at DAL AAA UAL. The 777 does have some multiple leg trips in Europe and Asia where you will fly pairings like CDG-MUC-FRA. Short hops, but makes for a long day or night (especially for a long haul pilot).



MD-11 has some long haul international flights but that is dwindling down as we buy more 777s. The rest is hub turns.


Everything else flies hub turns. If you are junior, expect 757 and night hub turn flying unless you score a wide body during indoc.



There are exceptions but that's 90% of it.