Originally Posted by
Hedley
With seniority you can tell PBS to build lower time lines (varies every month), and many do. That is the reason that junior pilots have to fly high time lines and pick up the slack. On the 737 my average is about 75 hours per month. In 2 years back on the plane I don’t think that I’ve ever been awarded more than 80. If I was junior life would be very different and I’d be flying 85-90 hr lines. We can drop to zero providing that there’s coverage, but there’s never coverage. You can trade similar trips around, but until you’re senior enough to bid productive turns that people want, flat out dropping a trip will be tough.
Curious about your base and seat. I’m a g-line straddler (left seat) in a rapidly shrinking west coast base and when I get a line it’s 89.999999 hours, repeating of course. Working from memory on bid awards, I think you have to be north of 50% to get anything below about 80-85.