BWW right next to our hotel, the best. I picked up a gallon of gravy at Krogers, put it in a flask. Drink it when nobody is looking in the sim. Digging the new visuals.

 

As compared to the old visuals that you have never seen?

 

Just make sure you clean up after yourself. And have fun at Amerijet.

 

This!!!!!! (luckily not ABX)

 

Tipping back the gravy to my ABX hoegurlz right now. :::slurp:::

 

Nobody cares what you are doing at your regional airline, flying your Barbie jet. Drink up!

 

Good Evening All,
I was just curious, for anyone who works at ABX, what is the longest you are away from home. I have a family and would like to keep my time away under a week. Thanks in advance.

 

When I was a new hire they were keeping people on the road for a month straight with JRM assignments.

 

You have the ability to bid just about anything you want and adjust it with SAP 1 and 2, but as always it will be based on your seniority, what others bid and what you can hold. Junior man can also affect time at home.

Since your guaranteed 14 days off a month in most cases I would think 17 days would be the longest you would be out worst case, unless you somehow bid 14 days at the beginning of one month and your days off at the end of the following month.

I’ve been able to hold the days off I wanted pretty much from my first bid off of OE, but I’ve had to bid reserve lines a couple of times to do it. Your mileage may vary.

 

If you live within easy driving distance of CVG, you can bid reserve and be at home quite a bit. Most pairings are fairly short. There are a few that go 6 to 8 days. If you somehow got two of those back-to-back, that could be a stretch, but you can also head that off by bidding one of the lines that have three blocks of days off. If you're even a little bit senior on reserve, you can exercise some control over your schedule by submitting reserve preferences and requesting airport reserve or whatever trips are likely to work best for you. Or if you hold a line, you might be able to drop it all and replace every day with mid-day airport reserve. I know of at least one guy who does that every month. Not only does he not fly that much, but he's getting paid for at least 80 hours per month, which is 15 over guarantee.

If you're commuting, you're going to be away from home for a total of 16 or 17 days per month whether it's in three blocks or all at once. I prefer to minimize the commuting time by bidding all of my work days in a single block. Then I get to go home, unpack my suitcase, and not worry about it for a while. Even after years of working in a job where I was home every day, my family did not have difficulty making the adjustment.

I see some replies raising the scary specter of junior manning, but it's not happening that much. There's a day here and there, but nothing like the serial junior manning that was happening six years ago. We introduced premium open time in the current contract, and that has eliminated much of the junior manning, which was the expectation. Those who want to work more can, and those who don't want to probably won't have to.

Regardless of how you do it, anything that can go wrong at home will go wrong while you are gone. That's just the way it works. In my two weeks at home every month, nothing of any significance ever needs my attention. Those things always wait until I leave.