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Old 04-22-2026 | 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by tallpilot
I'm still curious how unicorn that is? How many captains live within reasonable driving distance of CVG and have the seniority to get that many extra hours? How many days total worked and how many nights away from home would that be?
I don't know the exact number of captains living within driving distance of CVG, but it's probably at least a dozen, and you don't even have to be all that senior to pick up a couple extra days a month. You just have to be quick on the phone when the emails advertising last-minute 200% trips come out. If they're R1s, it's not even necessarily a night away from home - just half a day at the R1 hotel. Since the introduction of the optimizer, there seem to be a larger number of lines with Cincinnati appreciation days built in, so you can recover a few days a month at home that way. There are some pairings with fatigue problems that also create Cincinnati appreciation days. We do 16 or 17 work days per month, so total days worked would be 19 to 20. And all of this isn't even accounting for some of the scheduling tricks you can do with our flight credit bank and schedule adjustment periods.

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