Originally Posted by
13pro
How are the schedules at AA? Specifically junior lines? Are most trips commutable? How many days off? How long to hold a line in places like NYC, DCA, or CLT (I know those are varying greatly in seniority…) Is it possible
to get 15+ days off regularly early on? What about life on reserve? Days off etc… Trying
to make a better educated choice. Most important thing to me is days off, even if it
means giving up some $.
schedules have gone downhill in the last year or two. Used to be able to drop/reduce your schedule and now, regardless of what El Paso will say, you basically cant move anything anymore.
So.....I can speak of the following base schedules on the 737 side. LGA: roughly 50% uncommutable on either end, 35% commutable on 1 end, and 15% on both. LGA is a bear because of the expensive hotels and cab rides between LGA/JFK.
CLT: much more commutable but depending on your commute city the loads are always sky high and oh, the CLT lines are heavy on the number of legs and short layovers. 3-4 legs a day. LGA is mostly 2 legs a day. DCA: less commutable but not as bad as LGA but a smaller base. I like DCA but it has not really grown due to CLT taking their flying (from what I see).
Much of it depends on the city you will be commuting from. My city only has 4-5 flights a day to CLT, more to DCA, and crap ton to NYC. You get to 8 flights or more a day then the commute is much easier, for me, anything less sucks.
You can hold a line in LGA ASAP but once again, that place sucks for junior folks. DCA a little longer, and CLT even longer.