Originally Posted by
nicholasblonde
You can hold a CDO/hispeed line that is 100% commutable that gives you 10-11 days off within 2 months in Memphis. Look at the June '08 awards. There are people waaaaaay junior with 11-10 off, and that's 11-10 hard days off, as in your last day you're done at 8-9AMish and your first day you report at 6PMish (if you can even call them hispeeds out of Memphis anyways). Bottom line--you get 6-7 hours of sleep, so it's like a "hispeed light," and your 10 days off you will be at home, assuming you get a CDO line, which is easy to get right now.
The people I've heard complain are Memphis captains and MSP FOs Probably b/c those are senior bases for each as far as I know.
Seems like we're nearing well-staffed on the FO side. Plenty of new hires in the pipeline, and with the TDYs from MSP things seem to be balancing out.
I am a little tired of hearing MSP based FOs complaining about deadheading to DTW and MEM all the time to fly...change your frigging base or quit whining about it. We're always welcoming down here in the dirty south.
I'm not sure that I'd call a CDO line "commutable" any more that any other line. Sure, you start late on day 1 and finish early on last day, but you still are sitting at a crashpad for 10 hours a day 3-4 days a week with your thumb up your butt, unless you'd rather be sitting around in ops for 10 hours a day
So yes, you will have 10 hard days of a month at home, but you'll still need a crashpad on 1 year fo salary. It depends on which is the lesser of 2 evils for you.