Originally Posted by
CAirBear
JFC are you all brand new to this industry or something? There are times I have trips that start or end with DHs. This isn’t that unrealistic that someone (especially with seniority) could find trips that begin with a DH where one would commut from CHS (or wherever they live) to meet up with the plane.
An acquaintance I’ve met, while commuting, does this very regularly. He’s PHX on the Bus and constantly finds trips with DHs to ORD or DFW where he then commutes to in order to start his trip.
yeah I think we all know that captain carebear. The pushback is in response to this quote:
Originally Posted by
fastneat
A little slower, I suppose... the Pilot LIVES in Charleston. And the pilot flies for American on trips that START in Tampa. So he/she commutes TO Tampa FROM Charleston.
this quote was used as a representation of how breeze’s jumpseat is so great and helpful to majors. The problem is, to say there’s a pilot who flies the same trip every single time that starts in a non pilot base seems like a bit of a stretch for justification for why their jumpseat is so helpful to the rest of the majors. It’s highly suspect that the pilot picks up a tampa trip every single time he flies when it’s a non base, and that he 2 leg commutes via ATL to get there every single time. Possible, but not likely. Why would someone deliberately pick up the same or similar trip that begins out of a non base and 2 leg commute to get there? Just doesn’t make sense as it was described. My guess is he did it once and that was misrepresented as “always,” but even assuming it is 100% accurate, that doesn’t really help 99.999% of other major airline pilots. And that’s the point. Not that there shouldn’t be a reciprocal agreement, just that this example is a poor one for justification for it. So calm down there captain carebear.