Originally Posted by
Hellafo
Not hard to do on 3/4 year.
Share your secret sauce then. Bid with check airmen - requires seniority and a bit of luck. Conflict bidding - good for time off (IF your conflict pans out) but you can’t pickup over the footprint of conflicted trip so increases in pay requires flying on scheduled days off which doesn’t work for everyone. Play JA game essentially requires living in domicile and working on days off. The days of sitting reserve and not getting called then picking up trips on days off are long gone.
I work my schedule, only increase credit when it happens by trip trading for a better (more commutable) schedule and I’ve always been close to the unions “average total pay” numbers. I could pretty easily increase that with flying on days off but doing it and keeping 14-16/28 off, now that’s a magic trick.