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04-10-2026 | 04:53 PM

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SideStickMonkey

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Originally Posted by Whoopsmybad

Cool story, highly seat dependent. I can say that in mine if you aren’t super senior you don’t even sniff a SS.

I’ve flown two SS this bid period and plenty go junior

04-10-2026 | 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by SideStickMonkey

I’ve flown two SS this bid period and plenty go junior

Not trying to pick a fight.

Many things scheduling/pay related on this forum are category-related. It's prudent to be relative. The post you quoted was category-related.

04-10-2026 | 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Verdell

Not trying to pick a fight.

Many things scheduling/pay related on this forum are category-related. It's prudent to be relative. The post you quoted was category-related.

correct. Which is why some posters are tepid about altering the entire pwa for the entire pilot group just because a few posters in short-staffed categories don’t like aa.

04-10-2026 | 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Verdell

Not trying to pick a fight.

Many things scheduling/pay related on this forum are category-related. It's prudent to be relative. The post you quoted was category-related.

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Originally Posted by tripled

correct. Which is why some posters are tepid about altering the entire pwa for the entire pilot group just because a few posters in short-staffed categories don’t like aa.

This

Blanket statements like SS only go super senior are incorrect and do not represent the pilot group as a whole.

04-10-2026 | 08:52 PM

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Gunfighter

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Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

That’s because you are in the seat that does walk-arounds.

Relief WBA?

04-10-2026 | 09:31 PM

#36

Rvr330

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Originally Posted by Gunfighter

Relief WBA?

lol. The only time Captains see the outside of the plane is from the van on the way to the airport

04-11-2026 | 01:43 AM

#37

Whoopsmybad

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Originally Posted by Herkflyr

But I thought that there were oogles and boogles of SS in open time, no one can pick them up (because of the ALV+!5 WS limit), and the airline was going to implode tomorrow because of that? That seems counter to what you just wrote. Or maybe these things in fact are highly category-dependent?

I said highly seat dependent. Read what I wrote.

04-11-2026 | 01:45 AM

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Whoopsmybad

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Originally Posted by SideStickMonkey

This

Blanket statements like SS only go super senior are incorrect and do not represent the pilot group as a whole.

but that also goes for the people that talk about premium being super easy to get and everyone can get multiple a month. Highly dependent.

04-11-2026 | 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Rvr330

lol. The only time Captains see the outside of the plane is from the van on the way to the airport

I'm proud to be the exception to that statement. For my nine years of NBA, I did the walkaround on the FOs leg almost every time, with a few exceptions when there was something unusual that required more of my attention.

As a WBA, I still do the walkaround on the rare domestic legs, or if I am the relief captain on a 4-man trip. My spiel to my paired FO goes "if you make the bunk all nice and pretty, I'll do the exterior walkaround." It works out well, and gives me something to do.