Originally Posted by
lowflying
His point is that not everyone gets to avoid red-eyes after their first year or so. There's guys here for close to a year who can't even hold a line yet. Also, if you want to upgrade you'll have at least 3-4 years of reserve before you're lucky enough to fly a line with red-eyes. Alaska is growing at 1-2% a year and maybe someday we'll have an industry standard contract so why would anyone want to go anywhere else?
So there are F.O.’s that are 2+ years on the list and they can’t avoid all nighters? Not long ago, guys used to spend years and years on reserve before they could hold a line. If it’s down to under a year, I’d say that’s trending for the better. It was a solid year n 1/2 before I could hold consistent lines.
Can you avoid night flying after 2 years at UPS? I don’t know but I’m told no and you can expect it for the majority of your career there. You won’t spend the majority of your career at AS flying WOCL unless you want to. Is that a reason to choose AS over UPS? Depends on the person and how they want to live their life.
These Vs. threads are pretty useless because there’s no way to know where someone will spend a happier career. Someone may enjoy day trips at Allegiant more than 7-14 days on the road at UPS/Fed Ex. There’s a lid for every pot.