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Old 12-11-2022, 06:55 PM
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I know this will vary greatly on base/equipment and yes, I searched. I’m trying to figure out what a typical trip looks like for a junior FO in ATL on say 320/717/737? Stuff like typical legs in a day, time on duty, and crew rest. Typical number of days in a month worked. Any insight is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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I know this will vary greatly on base/equipment and yes, I searched. I’m trying to figure out what a typical trip looks like for a junior FO in ATL on say 320/717/737? Stuff like typical legs in a day, time on duty, and crew rest. Typical number of days in a month worked. Any insight is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
4-5 days with early reports and late releases. Look on icrew and see what is sitting in open time
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A typical junior 320 ATL trip would be a 3-4 day. Legs 3/2/3 or 3/2/2/3. Leg length 2-2:30 average. 1-2 hour sits. 11.5-14hr layover.

There’s obviously a lot of deviation from this. Could be 1 leg first day with an 18 hour layover but you pay for that later in the trip with more legs, long duty and a short layover. It’s a massive category so there’s everything.

I’m somewhat junior. In Nov my awarded line was 12 days of flying and 18 days off. My awarded Dec line was 14 days of flying and 17 days off, and after swaps and some magic, it’s 11 days of flying. I purposely fly less, need to be home more currently. Could easily fly 18 days if you want more cash. None of my trips were particularly brutal but definitely some early shows in there. If it gets bad enough, you can call it a day. Seems to be pretty good support for fatigue calls.
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717 probably has the most stable, predictable, some might say boring, flying of any NB fleet, other than maybe the -220. 3-4-3 three day trip or 3-4-4-3 or 3-4-2-3 four day. No redeyes. A trip that starts earlier or later in the day will stay on that early or late schedule unless there's a 30 hour layover to flip from PM to AM. Average gate-to-gate is around 1:30. Lots of flights under 1 hour flight time. Anything 1:45 or over is generally considered to be a long leg. YUL-ATL is currently the longest flight we do - in the winter it can be 2:40 flight time. Turn times at the outstations is usually ~55 minutes. in ATL it's between 1-2 hours. Rarely I'll see a trip with a 3 hour sit in ATL. So even with 4 legs you're generally not looking at a super long duty day. They have eliminated 5 leg days from the trips thankfully. Lots of turns out of ATL, followed by DTW and a little MSP. We don't touch any other hubs (unless you count turns to EWR to be a hub).

The layovers in the "burgs" and "villes" can be very nice. Generally safe and quiet, and not too far of a drive to the airport. Decent places to eat on most layovers. We do have some of the blandest layovers in the system though (JAN, FAY, DAY come to mind).
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Thanks, this is perfect!
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