"PR" (Partial RES day):

Let's say you're Payback Day ends and you start long-call at 1800. What's the earliest you can be assigned a rotation?

1800+12 (or +10 for SC), correct?

 

What is this thread? "The Latest & Greatest ways to bash the ATL88A's"? Thinking I might need to change my base and/or position..Starting to get a complex

Nerd ATL88A

 

I am just repeating what I hear. Most say with PBS their relative seniority is worse and those trips would suck. I agree things should start to improve IF we hold the line on JV/Codeshare agreements.

 

+1

I was just thinking these same things yesterday. It's very nice, and refreshing, to hear about the good guys/gals. Roadkill's post/experience fits the bill perfectly. Such good people should be celebrated and recognized as being part of the solution, not the problem.

 

You can always pick up time in current month. It will drop conflicting trips in next bid period. Can be used craftily to drop a next month trip. That's using a white slip.

Not sure about the pot swap.

 

You couldn't possibly be talking about FCAP?

 

I'm with you Cog, this is a great career path for all of us. It is my profession of choice by a wide margin. Looking at the ups and downs of this profession over the last 30 years from both the outside and the inside though didn't leave me the luxury of making it the only option.

Many friends were furloughed, thousands of co-workers lost pensions, many lost houses, cars, wives, etc over the uncertainties in this industry. Thousands of us lost five years of upgrades during a time when we planned on putting aside extra for retirement. We are all one doctor visit away from long term unemployment. The level of risk in our collectively preferred careers dictates we also have prudent backup plans.

 

you might have missed my earlier post but I was very clear in the middle of it:

 

For many of us, what Herkflyr says is true. Widebody FO IS a possibility now (as is narrowbody CA) if you want to:
1. Commute
2. Go back to the bottom 20% or so of the category.
3. Give up what little relative seniority you have scraped together so far.

For me personally, I'm not bitter at all. I choose to be happy. I'm content to stick it out where I am and look forward to the day when I crack the top 25% or so of my category and base. I have no desire to commute and have told myself I was going to stay put until I finally find out what it is like to be fairly senior in my seat. After that happens, I'll consider widebody FO or narrowbody CA upgrade. If retirement comes first....so be it. With all of the retirements and hiring it should get better. I hope so. So far not much has changed where I sit. At least I've finally cracked the 50% mark. This reply is not a "woe is me" response. Just want to make sure nobody gets "out of touch" by assuming everything is unicorns and rainbows now that we are retiring and hiring again.

 

Shoo! Feel much better now