Originally Posted by
AAfng
I did a whopping 12 months at ABX. I am now at a passenger airline. I went from driving to work to now commuting. I have friends always asking if they should go to an ACMI carrier. I dont know what to tell them.
Amazon is going to keep growing like mad and Omni, K4, and ATI have nice enough contracts now but the thing I dont see is the ability to drop trips. Drop reserve. Work less if needed. Change your schedule, trip trade. Pick up higher paying trips to make more money, not just work extra days. Home basing sounds great until you realize you are gone for 16 days no matter what. Commuting stinks but no schedule flexibility I "think" is worse. Am I missing something? At ABX I was only on reserve but it wasnt bad because I was able to just sit at home until called and they had a FIFO list I could watch.
How is schedule flexibility at your carrier? Isnt everyone just on reserve for X number of days?
At Kalitta (74) you are essentially a reservist for 16 days. You bid trips, but you probably won’t fly them. There isn’t any trip trading. You can’t drop trips. You can request certain days off, or any changes to your awarded days with the head of scheduling and she will work with you, but that is the only flexibility. If you want more money, it will take either overtime, or being in the right place at the right time.