Prepare Yourselves… 2024 AEs
08-12-2024 | 07:39 AM
#1222
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From: Hates Commuting
08-12-2024 | 07:56 AM
#1223
seeing the country...
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From: 73N A
Not to hijack the thread here but a question for those with more experience in the airlines. I am currently living in a base and am coming up on the end of my seat lock. Life is pretty great. Having said that I don’t know that I want to fly the same plane the rest of my career. I have a fiancé but no kids or really any serious life responsibilities and she would be cool with me commuting to a different plane. I know there is a strong argument to drive to work (which I currently do) and i get that. But I am wondering if any of you have gotten further on in your life when you have a wife/kids/responsibilities etc. and regretted not flying a certain plane or planes or trying a different type of flying? Even if you had to commute? The way i see it is i have the rest of my career to be based locally and drive to work when i have a family. I dont know if the price of commuting will offset the adventure of learning/flying a new fleet. But I feel like if there is a time to do it’s now.
So - I really recommend staying in base, unless you REALLY want the other aircraft. If you're going to the 330/350/765 that is purely Int'l and you'll be off reserve, then it won't be as bad. But you'll still have the stress of a commute.
Being in base, I can choose reserve if I want, sit SC on my couch, go around town, do whatever I want and still make a "get here ASAP" call without any worry.
08-12-2024 | 08:27 AM
#1224
Gets Weekends Off
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Commuting to an international category is much easier than commuting to domestic. More trips are commutable one or both ends and each trip is worth more pay. You will fly 1-4 trips per month vs 3-6. The time you spend commuting will be recovered with higher daily average credit. Look at the wide report for line value and days off around your seniority for a rough gauge on daily pay/credit.
Another factor is the ability to pick up trips that start/finish with a DH. You may get a paid PS commute.
The specific commute also matters. MSP-DTW is world's apart from SLC-JFK. You may lose out on short notice premium trips, but WB trips generally have more notice and higher value.
08-12-2024 | 08:36 AM
#1225
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As a commuter, My entire time at DAL, including time on reserve, I’ve only once ever flown more than 4 trips a month, and that’s when I got a 1 day tagged on to the end of a trip on reserve twice in the same month.
If you are flying 6 a month you are 1. Doing it wrong or 2. Flying shorter trips living in base.
If you are flying 6 a month you are 1. Doing it wrong or 2. Flying shorter trips living in base.
08-12-2024 | 09:31 AM
#1226
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As a commuter, My entire time at DAL, including time on reserve, I’ve only once ever flown more than 4 trips a month, and that’s when I got a 1 day tagged on to the end of a trip on reserve twice in the same month.
If you are flying 6 a month you are 1. Doing it wrong or 2. Flying shorter trips living in base.
If you are flying 6 a month you are 1. Doing it wrong or 2. Flying shorter trips living in base.
Back to AE. Mid bid by COB today?
08-12-2024 | 09:56 AM
#1229
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From: UNA
08-12-2024 | 10:05 AM
#1230
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In NYC you are better off flying back to back, FCO or ATH vs a 6 day CDG and just eat the hotel night. It seems the junior trips tended to be the 6 day
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