ULCC vs ACMI
02-16-2020, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by PotatoChip
I mean this with the utmost sincerity, but how do you know long haul international (for 15 days) is something you’d enjoy?
Have you done it? It’s fun, but it’s also crazy boring and mind-numbingly fatiguing when you’re not doing a simple United out and back to DUB from EWR. It’s rough on you. Add in a family or even a girlfriend to that mix, and it’s tough on people. 15 days on the road flying through 31 time zones isn’t healthy. You become a zombie. I’ve done it. For years.
Im not saying don’t go to Omni, have a buddy there, I’m just saying be realistic and don’t romanticize it.
Have you done it? It’s fun, but it’s also crazy boring and mind-numbingly fatiguing when you’re not doing a simple United out and back to DUB from EWR. It’s rough on you. Add in a family or even a girlfriend to that mix, and it’s tough on people. 15 days on the road flying through 31 time zones isn’t healthy. You become a zombie. I’ve done it. For years.
Im not saying don’t go to Omni, have a buddy there, I’m just saying be realistic and don’t romanticize it.
I’ve always imagined I’d enjoy long haul flying, see the world! you know? But I don’t know how I’d take to sitting 10hrs in a cockpit or if I’d find the fatigue worth the excitement.
The legacies are my goal. But I’d feel like I had a good career if it all ended for me at a great ACMI.
02-16-2020, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by EVVovernight
Good point. I haven’t done it and shouldn’t romanticize it; I’m early 30s, unmarried and no kids. I have a girlfriend who lives in a different city. With my regional job I go longer than 16 days without seeing her, and when I do in fact see her it’s for 2 days max. 16 days gone at an ACMI won’t hurt any worse.
I’ve always imagined I’d enjoy long haul flying, see the world! you know? But I don’t know how I’d take to sitting 10hrs in a cockpit or if I’d find the fatigue worth the excitement.
The legacies are my goal. But I’d feel like I had a good career if it all ended for me at a great ACMI.
I’ve always imagined I’d enjoy long haul flying, see the world! you know? But I don’t know how I’d take to sitting 10hrs in a cockpit or if I’d find the fatigue worth the excitement.
The legacies are my goal. But I’d feel like I had a good career if it all ended for me at a great ACMI.
02-17-2020, 05:18 AM
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Originally Posted by senecacaptain
How many time zones you doing in the regional job.
02-17-2020, 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by cargoforlife
Are you 64 years old? Or did you hit your head?
No interest in up and down four legs a day, no matter how good the paycheck. AA and UA bases suck. That leaves 3.
02-17-2020, 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted by CardboardCutout
No, and not sure, can't remember.
No interest in up and down four legs a day, no matter how good the paycheck. AA and UA bases suck. That leaves 3.
No interest in up and down four legs a day, no matter how good the paycheck. AA and UA bases suck. That leaves 3.
ORD DFW CLT MIA LAX IAD EWR SFO IAH DEN PHX GUM DCA BOS PHL JFK and LGA....
All of those suck?? That’s almost the entire country, just minus the PNW, from which SFO and LAX are very easy commutes.
02-17-2020, 06:46 AM
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Originally Posted by PotatoChip
That’s almost the entire country
02-17-2020, 07:02 AM
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Originally Posted by CardboardCutout
You live on a coast, don't you? The closest of those is a five hour drive, and is a festering social and political wound where it snows sideways. No thanks. CLT and DEN would have been fine fifteen years ago when you could afford a decent house...
And ORD DEN CLT PHX DFW are all pretty non-coastal.
Again, I get that it is all subjective, but just seems to say everyone of those places sucks puts you in a pretty small box. But who knows, maybe one day AA will open a Manhattan, KS domicile.
Good luck with your three remaining options. Sincerely, not sarcastically.
02-17-2020, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by PotatoChip
Good luck with your three remaining options. Sincerely, not sarcastically.
02-17-2020, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by PotatoChip
Of course it’s subjective, I get that, but...
ORD DFW CLT MIA LAX IAD EWR SFO IAH DEN PHX GUM DCA BOS PHL JFK and LGA....
All of those suck?? That’s almost the entire country, just minus the PNW, from which SFO and LAX are very easy commutes.
ORD DFW CLT MIA LAX IAD EWR SFO IAH DEN PHX GUM DCA BOS PHL JFK and LGA....
All of those suck?? That’s almost the entire country, just minus the PNW, from which SFO and LAX are very easy commutes.
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