Originally Posted by Twin Wasp

Atlas has “30 day” lines and “60 day” lines. They should really be called one month lines and two month lines since some months have 31 days but it’s Atlas. January 31st and March 1st are in the February bid to bring it up to 30 days. The 30 day lines on the 74 tend to be one block of 15-17 days. You’re likely to be on the other side of the planet in the middle of your trip so it would cost them money to bring you home. The 60 day lines tend to broken into three trips. You might have 10 days toward the beginning of the first month. Then the last seven days of the month and the first seven days of the second month. Then nine or ten days towards the end of the second month.

There are also “Hybrid” lines that are a mix of flying and up to 4 reserve days. The reserve days can be separate from the flying days, at the end of the flying days or even leading into the flying days which makes no sense because if they use you during those days the whole rest of your line is usually shredded and they’ve having to get people to cover your flying while you sit on the other side of the world.

Looking at some 76 lines even many of their 30 day lines are broken into 2 chunks of flying.