Originally Posted by
tennisguru
My perfect schedule would be 3 5-day trips, with either one leg late on day 1 or one early on day 5 and done. 13.5 days gone from home and 78 hours of pay.
Yep. Throw in one or two great layovers per trip, lower time on actual duty, few or no plane changes versus 1-2 a day, 1-2 legs a day versus 3-5, and having easy report and release times versus the 5am/11pm nonsense is well worth "losing" a calendar day off in theory.