Originally Posted by
Jetpack
Thanks for the info. Is it hard to bid back-to-back 3 day trips, or is that something you can easily do? I know Atlanta is senior for Captain, but I thought I saw somewhere that you could hold a line there within the first year as an FO? Is that true? I wouldn’t mind driving to Atlanta once a month or so if I couldn’t commute via Delta. I’d rather do longer trips, and commute less if I could.
Maybe it's because I'm not in my 20's anymore, but anything more than a 2-day at SWA is exhausting to me (unless, apparently, according to flyguy81, you're based in DEN, where most of the trips are less than nine-hour duty days and limited to only one or two legs with 14-plus hour overnights). For me, back to back SWA 3-days would be utter death via overwhelming fatigue.
I know that guys do them. But, y'know how people talk about the FedEx and UPS guys looking like sh** because they fly back-side of the clock? Ya, it's kinda like that with guys at SWA who regularly do things like fly back to back 3-days when they're not in their 20's or 30's.