Originally Posted by
qekq
How junior is MEM 747? I would live in base.
How are the lines in MEM? Mostly 17 days straight? 4-5 days on? 3-4 days off? Lots of returning to MEM for a day or two?
Current regional FO with 1200 SIC turbine. 400 of that is 121 SIC turbine.
Thanks!
I just skimmed the MEM f/o bid pack and found two lines in there with a 4-5 day trip. The catch is they both have two trips for the month and the other one is12-13 days. There is basically no fleet in this company that is regularly going to give you 4-5 days on and 3-4 days off. It just doesn't happen. You can probably routinely find something closer to 8/6 or 10/10 once you have some seniority but we have nothing contractually that creates that sort of balance. In short, if you want an airline with a "normal" work week or weekends off, this is the wrong place for you.
Memphis trips tend to start with a long leg to Asia, bounce around between Asia and ANC, then return to MEM on the last day. This month it looks like lots of split lines with 2 trips in the 7-10 day range but I'm not based there so I don't know what is typical for them.