Originally Posted by
nimslow
Unless you call sick for every trip, I'd say the chance of not flying on SC for the full month in DFW on a narrow body is pretty much zero. Since every other base flys through DFW, we cover broken trips from other baes all the time. I cant speak for the fo's, but as a ca on short call, it's very rare for me to have more than two, or three days a month I don't fly. I've timed out more than a few times, and usual SC month is around 70 hours.
I believe the other narrow body bases are probably about the same, but we average 30% reserve coverage, both ca's and fo's.
On the line holder side, for December in DFW (737) 41% of our pairings were 4 day trips, and just over 5% were 5 day's.
I didn't look at January yet, but my fo says it looks about the same.
well, it’s true, and I proffered for trips. It’s because they were giving out premium like crazy and people probably didn’t want to call in sick. I had Covid and got a PW status and a 30ish hour GTD, then didn’t turn a wheel. Didn’t even make it to the 1st guy on the hook ever. I worked almost the entire holiday week too.