Originally Posted by BoilerUP

There are a lot of pilots at UPS that can't stand sitting the night sort, either.

Yes, many hub sort trips have 8-11 hours of duty with 2 or 3 legs, and some of them, especially the one coast-SDF-other coast duty periods, don't have much of a rest opportunity in the sort.

While practically impossible to avoid sitting the sort if you're junior, once you have a little seniority you can bid day flying, international, etc. There's quite a bit of schedule variety available to someone once off their initial 18 month seat lock, and sometimes even within it on their original fleet.

Express cargo ain't for everybody...but it also isn't the utterly body-destroying, life-shortening death march some make it out to be. I've found, on average, night sort trips give me more opportunity to exercise than day trips with the same basic sleep opportunity.

Our vacation policy makes it easy to take 2 weeks of vacation and turn it into 4, 6, even 8 weeks off depending on bidding strategy. If you don't mind giving up some pay, one-week vacation slide can give you the same length of time off via conflict drops. All that is to say things are available to help pilots physically recover from the uncontested toll WOCL flying takes on the body over accumulated time.

That is not to say one employer is outright 'better' than the other, only 'better' for a given individual and their own wants/needs/desires.