FA's bragging about 3 day trips or less.
06-24-2021 | 02:36 PM
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FA's bragging about 3 day trips or less.
Had a SLC flight attendant tell me they have nothing longer than 3 day trips. Now don't get me wrong, I know their trips can be really bad but why do we have mostly 4 and 5 day trips domestically?
06-24-2021 | 02:37 PM
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I thought this was obvious. We are getting optimized.
06-24-2021 | 03:25 PM
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Flight attendants are qualified on every fleet, we aren't. Our pre month credit would be too high if all our trips were 3 days or less.
06-24-2021 | 03:47 PM
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06-24-2021 | 03:53 PM
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Had a commuting flight attendant complain that their 5 day trips all dried up and she had to do all 3-days.
06-24-2021 | 04:13 PM
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They are qualified on every plane. There are 5 subsets of domestic pilots (717, 220, 320, 73N, 7ER) because they can be utilized on more aircraft, that allows for them more flexible trips and to be able to open bases in more places like BOS, MCO, FLM(FLL/MIA) etc. that allow them to keep domestic trips to a shorter duration.
06-24-2021 | 04:13 PM
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Hint: They have worse work rules and are qualified on all equipment.
As far as 5 day trips Delta did not do them. Post merger with NWA they eliminated them in the NWA bases. Huge complaints from pilots so they brought them back because we asked for them. Be careful what you ask for!
06-24-2021 | 04:36 PM
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The FA's definitely seem to have better trips than us on average. Any 30 hour layovers I've had recently where the FA's also had 30 hours they were on a 3-0-3 leg 3-day trip. The one downside I've seen is they have a higher number of long (3+ hour) sits than I've come across in my own trips.
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