DeltaboundRedux

Unlikely.

Once you’re hired, nobody cares about your past experience or flight hours.

You’re just a seniority number and a tiny interchangeable cog in a huge wheel. It’s not personal, it’s just the system.

Swakid8

Would get laughed out of the interview then receive a Thanks But No Thanks email the following day…

As you should know coming before entering into 121 and going into your interview. It’s seniority based, you schedule that your seniority can hold. Considering that trips that run over the weekend tend to go senior, there’s a good chance that you can get those trips over the weekend. Same goes for reserve…..

Noisecanceller

This has got to be a troll post. The complete ignorance of how 121 schedules work this can’t be real.

Why even waste your time going to an interview if you think you’re going to give them hard days of availability

myrkridia

Unlike other jobs, you don't negotiate your pay or work rules as part of the interview process. Whether it's possible or not will depend on bidding behavior of your piers and what your seniority and the contract will allow. In the 121 world I wouldn't go into it with this expectation and mindset. Instead I'd advise flexibility as you start and keeping this as a goal rather than a acceptable threshold.

Roy Biggins

I’ve found that my sweet spot is 2 day trips working 8-9 days a month max. I’ve yet to figure out how to implement this schedule consistently.

TransWorld

I have found being retired keeps me more busy than I want. I have yet to figure out how to be doing less than that.

highfarfast

The big misunderstanding here is that there are terms in a union negotiated contract that must be adhered to for every pilot working at the company. You can't come into the interview and give your own terms because "there's a pilot shortage". Those terms have already been decided by the pilot union.

Roy Biggins

Hahaha 😂 ….

Crockrocket95

I think I worked Fri-Sunday for the first 3 years at my current place... It goes pretty junior,. Except for holidays that fall on a weekday, then you get weekdays lol.

TOGALOCK

An old, experienced, gray haired, 60 year old 777 captain who had weekends and holidays off and only worked 6 days per month could lose their job if their airline went belly up. When they go to another airline, despite their past, they will be back to being a first officer (co-pilot for the 135 folk), on year 1 pay, flying the most junior equipment, on reserve, working 18 days/month to include weekend, holidays, and all those special days they may need off.

The “being an airline pilot might be fun” crowd became pretty prevalent in the year or so leading up to covid. It seems to becoming a thing again now. The reality is that most of those types don’t make it very long once they realize it isn’t what they imagined.

If you want to give the airline pilot life a go and are willing to shovel poop (so to speak) for awhile until you can hold what you want, I think you should have no problem finding a job. I would stick to the regionals if rapid seniority gain to one day trips and weekends off is your desire. If you really wanted to fly something a little bigger, depending on where you live, Allegiant, Avelo, and even Frontier have a lot of one day trips and seniority moves pretty quick on the FO side.