R2 Question
01-22-2024, 04:52 AM
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R2 Question
I'm an FO about a year in with a struggling ULCC and considering Atlas to get out of the commuting rat race. I understand from reading previous posts that the airframe you choose (and base to some extent), can result in very different lifestyles. I hear 767 R2 can afford a nice lifestyle if looking to be home more often. I live in Louisville, KY and looking at the CVG base, which is I just mapped to be 1 hour and 27 minutes in traffic this morning. If I understand the reserve system corectly, R2 is report within 1.5 hrs, cutting it extremely close. In this scenario, would then get a hotel for me since I'm right on the bubble? Thinking I'd move to the east side of town to give myself an extra 20 minutes! ha
01-22-2024, 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by kjrocka
I'm an FO about a year in with a struggling ULCC and considering Atlas to get out of the commuting rat race. I understand from reading previous posts that the airframe you choose (and base to some extent), can result in very different lifestyles. I hear 767 R2 can afford a nice lifestyle if looking to be home more often. I live in Louisville, KY and looking at the CVG base, which is I just mapped to be 1 hour and 27 minutes in traffic this morning. If I understand the reserve system corectly, R2 is report within 1.5 hrs, cutting it extremely close. In this scenario, would then get a hotel for me since I'm right on the bubble? Thinking I'd move to the east side of town to give myself an extra 20 minutes! ha
If you are outside this range, then yes, you will be provided a downtown hotel at company expense, on Per Diem, and earning CRT with Time Away From base running from first R2 start time through release to days off.
R3 airport reserve may be a better bid, as you can just drive to the Airport Hotel for a few hours, 4 or 6 hours I think is the duration.
We also have a number of out and backs, like CVG-ORD-CVG and CVG-SJU Hotel SJU-CVG that would give you plenty of time at home with the CRT clock running.
01-22-2024, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by kjrocka
Thanks for the quick reply. Is it typical in your experience that they call you for a trip with a 90 min report window for R2? Mostly night flying for the out and backs?
Aside from an outbase, I have only done R2 once, and it was in SEA. On about day three or four I was called and had over 24 hours to report for a commercial DH to CVG... operating leg canceled while I was sitting in back of an Alaska Air Jet. Flew back to SEA a day later and never heard from scheduling for my last 11 days.
Great Pay check, Bellevue restaurants are really expensive, and I haven't seen SEA Reserve on a bid packet since.
01-23-2024, 05:00 AM
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Thanks. Is there a particular airframe that tends to start and end trips in CVG? Seems like ACMI's landscape is ever-changing, so maybe this is a difficult question to answer. Would be nice to hop in the car and drive home after a long trip. 747?
01-23-2024, 05:19 AM
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Originally Posted by kjrocka
Thanks. Is there a particular airframe that tends to start and end trips in CVG? Seems like ACMI's landscape is ever-changing, so maybe this is a difficult question to answer. Would be nice to hop in the car and drive home after a long trip. 747?
01-23-2024, 08:33 AM
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Greatly appreciate the response. One more question - I'm 6'5" and wondering if one aircraft provides more bunk space than the others. Seems maybe trivial but could equate to difficultly getting rest and really affecting qol and health if I'm unable to fully stretch out.
01-23-2024, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by kjrocka
Greatly appreciate the response. One more question - I'm 6'5" and wondering if one aircraft provides more bunk space than the others. Seems maybe trivial but could equate to difficultly getting rest and really affecting qol and health if I'm unable to fully stretch out.
01-24-2024, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by kjrocka
Greatly appreciate the response. One more question - I'm 6'5" and wondering if one aircraft provides more bunk space than the others. Seems maybe trivial but could equate to difficultly getting rest and really affecting qol and health if I'm unable to fully stretch out.
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