Originally Posted by crewdawg

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.





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.





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.