Originally Posted by
RippinClapBombs
At my old regional we had CA’s who flew day trips that credited over 8 hours. They worked 10 days per month max, depending on seniority all weekends off. They could drop any of those day turns, awarded any vacation days they wanted. They made well over 300k with 10% 401k match while sleeping in their own bed every night (I can’t believe I’m having to defend the regionals haha).
Can you give a detailed response to why Atlas QoL is apparently superior to everyone else? The “trust me bro” is getting kind of old.
You mean those same Senior captains who are punching out finally after 20 plus years to be junior FOs at a legacy carrier because they are tired of working minimum days off and 4-day trips….
You mean those guys? I’ve flown with quite a few of them that are now Junior to me.
Alright cool, show me a regional pilot who can utilizes their vacation and vacations slides to generate damn near 2 months off of work? I gonna hear crickets, I managed to pull that off at Atlas before leaving and I was only about 65 percent seniority at the time.
Since we are talking about Senior Daddies, Atlas has Senior Daddy 747 drivers based in ANC who will go out 3 to 4 day lap in Asia before getting back to ANC and getting themselves hard rest in base ie nights at home for easily 30 to 50 hour mid-trip and still getting CRT for i, this where the 25 plus nights at home comes from…. That’s not happening at a Regional…
As a commuter, gateway travel is a great benefit and will boost one’s QOL. The only way that benefit will be beaten is by living base or close to base within driving distance of a SC callout window.
Hotels - The last La Quinta I stayed at was at a regional….
Look, Unless you worked at Atlas, you’ll know. But since you haven’t, you will not understand and you a more detail explanation of it, fly with a former Arlas driver at your shop, discuss it over beers. We will be happy to explain to it as to what we loved about the job and didn’t love about it and our reasons for leaving.