Originally Posted by 86BravoPapa;[url=tel:3630597
3630597]This United commuting thing is scary stuff for someone from the outside looking in. It seems hard to believe it's so bad at a legacy but it certainly seems like a case of 'where there's smoke, there's fire', and there's a lot of smoke. So aside from the jumpseat senority issue, what makes it so bad? How do pilots handle the hardship; aside from moving to base? It seems like such a great opportunity but forum talk paints a heck of a picture...
I commuted for my first 5 years. It’s fine. People just want the DL way to be sitting at the computer at midnight waiting for the clock to hit zero so they can sign up for a ride……I want to hear what these same pilots say when they are top 100 seniority playing a BS game after 30 years. My bet is they will say that the DL way is BS because they are senior….
At United you give yourself 2 flights, if you don’t make it you call the crew desk and the positive space you if they need you…If not you go home. Of the 2 or 3 times that happened they positive spaced me.
We have some losers here that just show up and don’t list but there is not many. commuting sucks no matter what….there is no good commute.