Originally Posted by
CBreezy
Something like 10% of trips in my category are day trips. What you are describing is available to a very small minority of people at all airlines. Sometimes, my wife has to travel for work too. We have all chosen our particular work lifestyles. It's completely absurd to try and compare the day turn lifestyle to the remaining 90% of pilots at an airline. You can have it. I wouldn't sacrifice my living near family and friends to move to ATL to do island turns even if my seniority could hold it. It's amazing you can't comprehend that people have different priorities than you.
I commuted for 8 years and I can fathom having to do it again someday for sure. I can comprehend.
Doesn’t delta have trip mix requirements in the CBA?