Originally Posted by fecav8r

One question... have you ever flown nights for a week straight? If you have, great. If you haven't you don't have the perspective to comment on "planning ahead." It's real easy to plan ahead, but those plans usually don't include the maid at the hotel knocking on your door 2 hours after you got to sleep, or little Johnny coming into the bedroom and asking Dad to take him to soccer practice. And I bet when you were working ground support you were going home to your own bed every day. Probably had a situation that enabled you to get a good 8 hours sleep. And you probably did it 5 days a week, 4 weeks a month. Unfortunately the skeds that most of us at FedEx work under aren't that conducive to staying on the same cycle. Just my two cents worth.