Old 05-06-2020, 02:49 PM
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Noworkallplay
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Originally Posted by ImmaAHole View Post
Cargo doesn't give your family travel benefits, something to consider if you use that. It seams most of my flying at an ACMI is during daylight hours, but changing 6+ time zones, it is irrelevant. Every year around Christmas, I get to experience UPS and Fed Ex domestic flying schedules and I can honestly say I hate all of them. Definently the worst flying I do at my ACMI. Go Fed Ex and UPS for the money, go international ACMI for the better and more interesting flying. I've done pax flying, never again. Never flew for a major, don't care. The pax mission I hate as much as I hate the public, the smurfs, gate agents, non-reving, paying for hotels, flying in a day early, etc. There's always a few good FA's, but the majority of them only serve to add drama to your job.
Pax flying is affected greatly by socio/economic natural/man made conditions. Where I work, when the economy is doing great, so am I. When the crap hits the fan, I do even better. When things go bad for cargo/acmi, pax will soon follow.
It's all a crap shoot, make a decision and get lucky!!
FedEx has ZED tickets. Most FedEx pilots don’t buy them because they have massive amounts of frequent flyer miles from company paid deadheads so we just use them to get positive space tickets. As a guy who use to have “pass privileges” at a major they were worthless to my family. Would never put my family through the wait and see game of standby travel. I make enough to just buy tickets if needed.
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