Soooo, does AA have a commuter clause?

 

MIA can be a tough place to live. It's very expensive, and you get hit up with a lot of "hidden taxes" like the cost of auto insurance, which is 2x the national average. The cost of homeowners (with windstorm) will make you faint.

Plus the traffic is horrible.

In the three county area (Dade, Broward, Palm Beach), the cost of living is extremely high in general. It's tough to even find "open country" until you get pretty far north into PBC, and from there, that's at least a 90 minute drive to KMIA.

Some people, who are into the fishing or boating groove, dig it. But the unending grind of living down there annoys most people after a short while.

Nu

 

Supplement G. Be prudent. Tell CS ASAP. CS has a couple of options, dhd you to cover rest of your trip, give you new trip, etc.

Missed flying is unpaid.

It applies to planes, trains, and automobiles.

 

Questions for those that commute.....

If one is on reserve how many nights are you averaging away from home? Same question for those holding a primary and secondary block....

Also for arguments sake let say your home has 3-4 mainline nonstop per day to and from your base.

 

I'm on the Airways side and commute from DFW to PHL. We have 5 non-stop flights on us per day (except for Sat).

When I sat short call, I was averaging around 7-8 nights at home per month. On probation (and under our old reserve rules), I would come up the night before, so that ate into a day off.

On long call (still on probation), there were times where Future would give me a trip that gave me an extra night at home, but I still would go up the night before if I didn't get one (just to be on the safe side). Now that I'm off probation, I do sit a home a little more often. I do this as long as I'm far enough down the list. When I'm close to the top of my bucket, I come into base.

There's a small window, that if called, I can't make it during the 10 hours (the window was larger when it was 9 hours).

Next month, I have my first Secondary. It's has 16 days off. Maybe 2-3 of the trips aren't front end commutable, so if I can't get anything off the bid sheet, I'll have to come up the night before. However, I'll definitely be home more.

Commuting sucks, but with our jumpseat system (which I pray survives), it does take some of the stress out of things. Hopefully, we'll work everything out before too long and I can be based at home.

 

So for those of us on the outside, can you give a quick explanation of the Airways jump seat policy? I've seen a few mentions of how everyone hopes it survives the merger, must be a pretty good deal.

Thanks!

 

Reserved by phone on a first come first served basis. 7 days from departure.

 

Just to be more explicit. You book it, it's yours. Outside of the FAA or a line check, of course. One could, with a 2014 DOH, wave and nod to the 1983 hire left behind because they were faster to the booking.

 

Even if the plane is weight restricted you still get on. They'll even pull a passenger off, for mainline only.

 

How long are most guys being hired now on short call before moving to long call?