Originally Posted by
Spartacusbob
Been here nearly a year. Have a line. Dropping is nearly impossible, haven’t successfully done it yet and been told it doesn’t work. RSV coverage is too high so no available pickers. I am routinely getting 88-89.5 hr lines. The QOL on RSV isn’t great because a day off isn’t always a day off-total bull**** btw. Can’t adjust your schedule to fly the hrs you want. This also screws your opportunity for premium pay because too many RSV’s. The company apparently gives no cares to the QOL issues affecting the fleet and its generating problems with upgrades, basing, etc. These are my personal experiences, yours may vary.
I won’t tell you to look at another airline but if I were you I’d think carefully about it.
Being a line holder in less than a year is impressive and shows how much movement we have right now, but I wouldn’t expect things to really improve until you have some seniority. This place is going to potentially be expanding as fast as staffing will allow and the junior pilots are going to be flying hard. Senior pilots can bid to fly less hours and better trips, but someone has to cover the flying, and stuff rolls downhill. When we eventually get our next contract I wouldn’t expect it to be the cherry picked best parts from other companies. It will have significant improvements, but I can’t imagine there ever being coverage to allow everyone to drop trips without coverage, bid lower time lines regardless of seniority, etc. Things will be better in the next contract for all, but there will always be a difference in QOL between being junior and senior.