Originally Posted by
captjns
Cargo is the way to go… No hassle, no fuss, no muss. It’s disturbiing to hear how often and how many diversions occur due to disruptive pax.
I'm not cargo hater, but this is a bit misleading. Of course you'll never divert for a disruptive pax, unless it's one of your own running around with an ax. But what is the percentage of pax flights diverting for unruly pax? I'd have to imagine it has a decimal and a zero or two before you get to a number above zero. Even if so, those pilot probably got a nice bit of extra pay for that divert lol. Even if I did, other than a radio call, I don't really deal with it anyway. I'm already through the first third of my pax carrier career (hopefully) and I haven't even had to kick off a pax at the gate, let alone divert for one. I sit up front with the door closed and let them deal with it while finding the end of the internet. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, it just seems like cargo guys woefully over blow this issue.
Originally Posted by
Squawkbox2012
Interesting thread. I actually do a lot of layovers that are 30 up to 70 hours. I've actually come to realize I feel like my life is completely wasted on the road. End up spending money on rent cars, random attractions to keep myself entertained. Crazy to say I preferred 13-15 hour layovers where you could eat dinner, sleep... get up, work out... eat breakfast and get back to it. Definitely a different world. I see why some do side gigs on the road (YouTube, Stocks, etc..). Time at home is the most valuable asset to me. Sorry not sorry. Everyone is different and I respect that. But I feel I'm just gaining weight and fighting boredom at the end of the day. Contemplating going back to pax.
Man, unless it's a great location that I can take the lady with me, anything over 18 hours is going on my avoid list. I don't do this job to "travel" on overnights. Unless that 30-70 hour layover is at home, which I know some cargo guys who are lucky enough to do, then it's a complete waste of my time. I actually prefer no overnights, day trips and sleep in my own bed at night lol.
Originally Posted by
FTv3
Circadian: intl/long haul, I don’t think there’s much difference and could even argue it’s slightly less fatiguing at Fx/UPS vs pax.
Admittedly not the main reason, but one of the reasons a buddy left FDX was he hated the "round the world" long haul flights. He knows he could have eventually bid off to something else, but he had his other reasons which were the driving factor. Though, I'm not sure if that's worse than one leg to Europe, 22-30 hours overnight, then one leg home, which is how a lot of our international trips are constructed.