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Old 06-19-2021, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by threeighteen View Post
No ORD is even busier (more movements) but busy is good if it’s productive.

DL ATL regional flying is super unproductive, inefficient, miserable. I’ve posted about it here before… expect max duty days for minimum daily pay and 2-3 hours of block time each day flying from ATL to Dothan or Brunswick in a CRJ sweating through your shirt because the APU can’t keep up. Expect long sits at both the outstation and at the hub between flights. Every flight is over-blocked by at least 25-30 minutes so you’re always going to be 25-30 minutes early to your 3 hour sit. You’ll also rarely ever make it into the flight levels so the cabin won’t ever get cool and you’ll be stressing about that because the last thing you want to be doing is a carpet dance in the chief’s office explaining why the media is investigating why someone got heat stroke on your plane and had to go to the hospital. But if you refuse the flight for no APU (which you should always do), your chief will be pestering you anyway. So either way you’re screwed.

This may be true for Endeavor CRJ-200 flying. The - 900 isn't bad. Lots of much longer legs thrown in the mix. Any airline / domicile that flies the - 200 will have lots of short legs, hot cabins, etc etc. Be based at home. Commuting is worse than flying the - 200.
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