Originally Posted by
fgogs
Thank you for the informative response. I'm from Seattle, returning to Seattle and I am intent on raising our children in Seattle. As such, do you or anyone know how probable it is to hold Seattle initially?
Also, can you explain a little more what you meant by the deadhead and hotel policy being on the whim of management?
Lastly, can you help me undersand what it means to combine trips at the time of assignment?
Sorry I'm so helpless at this point, I'm trying my best to learn
Seattle should be attainable as a new hire or fairly quickly after that.
The commuter hotels and positive space commutes are only a temporary policy, not in the contract, so that can go away easily. Scheduling would historically keep you out for your entire reserve block by adding flying at the end of every day. If you started a 5 day block of reserve and got called to do a Denver turn, when you got back you would get something added on. Again and again. It would commonly have you doing horrible things to your body clock. Now they can't do that. If they want to put trips together, they have to do it at the time of assignment. It's a significant improvement.