Originally Posted by
cal73
Nobody wants early starts and late finishes?
I suppose I can kind of understand that if you’re a commuter. A commuter wants late starts and early finishes. Guess what that gives you! Low credit/low paying trips. And guess what that gives you! Fewer days off!!! For everyone on this forum saying the trips are why no one is upgrading, how would you build them differently? Keep in mind people like me (and there’s a few of us)that value high time trips and maximum days off?
for the commuters out there I can empathize with the situation having been a Newark and Houston commuter. You want commutable trips but high credit. It doesn’t really exist. Opening new bases seems like a logical solution to the problem of our pilots not wanting to bite the commuting reserve to ewr, sfo, dca, ord. Not to mention we aren’t willing to move to cities that have some of the highest costs of living in the world. Keep them bases opening. My 2¢
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As a commuter I wouldn't mind narrow body 5 day trips if they were descent credit and commutable on both sides. If I'm going to do a non commutable 4 day trip(a 5 day trip for a commuter) and pay for a hotel room I might as well try to get paid for the commute day and the hotel.
But I understand pilots living in base want nothing to do with 5 day trips.