Originally Posted by
Gulfasaurus
How senior do you need to be to hold afternoon/evening trips on the 717? There's something about it that keeps it in the back of my mind for my first upgrade in a few years. It seems like I would like everything about it but the 4AM van times wreck me even on my current fleet. It takes me at least 2 days to recover from an early AM trip, but I don't mind blocking in late, even after midnight. It's bad enough that I will happily take redeyes instead, as those don't seem to bother me as much.
Not hard. Trips vary, they aren’t all early shows just like the 320 isn’t all red eyes. There’s usually more early stuff in open time but you can easily get later stuff.