Yep, 1 in and 1 outs (of the sort each night) with a 2-3hr sleep and commercial tickets on both ends of the pairing aren’t bad & easy AF. Delays wiping out the sleep opportunity and putting you into the hotel super late (past 8am) and reschedules to multiple legs are the gotchas. Biggest issue is that there are no ways to catch-up if you get a bad day of sleep.

I’m one of the ‘not for everyone,’ crowd. I hate these -> just can’t sleep more than 4-5 hrs once I get to the hotel. So, I take an early evening nap for 2hrs at best, then an hour or 2 at the sort if lucky (plenty of times I’ve laid there tired AF yet wide awake…🤷‍♂️). But by the end of the week I’m pretty wiped out. My days off are then consumed by catching up and getting back into some sort of sleep routine, finally feeling rested a couple of days before I have to go back to work. Result = chronically tired with no relief.

I’ve flown ones that start and end mid week so you get the weekend off (on a long layover). They were excellent for rest/fatigue mitigation but you lose the commercial tickets. I don’t think these are common on any fleet unfortunately.

Also note, night sort flying is commuter friendly so the lines don’t go junior.

Id take the day pax flying without a second thought. Would hate it but better than being a walking zombie flying night sort.