Would like feedback from other pilots
12-07-2018, 06:33 PM
#11
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Joined APC: Apr 2015
Posts: 2,427
Originally Posted by theUpsideDown
A crashpad is less than 300 a month. Ymmv but 3600 a year and having a line with the days off we get and block or better is no contest to me. Get a crashpad, take the better bid, and if you really feel bad pick up a 4 day at 150 with you 18 off once a year.
Yeah, but he doesn’t hold a line..... lol. That’s my point, I wouldn’t commute to reserve to not get used and spend money on a crash pad when I can be chilling at home and enjoying life and heading to work for a few times month.......
Once he can hold a line in NYC that’s when I would consider the commute imho.
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12-08-2018, 02:21 AM
#12
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Joined APC: Dec 2017
Posts: 2,767
Originally Posted by Swakid8
Yeah, but he doesn’t hold a line..... lol. That’s my point, I wouldn’t commute to reserve to not get used and spend money on a crash pad when I can be chilling at home and enjoying life and heading to work for a few times month.......
Once he can hold a line in NYC that’s when I would consider the commute imho.
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Once he can hold a line in NYC that’s when I would consider the commute imho.
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12-08-2018, 02:58 AM
#13
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Joined APC: Apr 2017
Posts: 159
Originally Posted by PotatoChip
I’m about 75% of the CA reserves in NYC and get hit with RRA about 3-5 times a month. My drive is 2-3 hours each way depending on traffic, it suuuucks, and I will be on reserve for another 1-2 years. How far is your drive? If I was in your same spot and lived within one hour of ATL, I would bid ATL yesterday.
Commuting to reserve where you don’t even get called out is pointless and a waste of life (unless you hate your family, love crash pads, have a thing for a stripper in NYC, etc).
Come back to NYC for a line. And by the time you get a line, the mythical growth may finally be here and ATL might be growing.
Commuting to reserve where you don’t even get called out is pointless and a waste of life (unless you hate your family, love crash pads, have a thing for a stripper in NYC, etc).
Come back to NYC for a line. And by the time you get a line, the mythical growth may finally be here and ATL might be growing.
12-08-2018, 04:32 AM
#14
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Joined APC: Jan 2013
Position: Seated
Posts: 4,310
Originally Posted by MIkeFavinger
Just curious what you do for SCR living that distance away? Drive closer every day? Crash pad?
12-08-2018, 05:11 AM
#15
Line Holder
Joined APC: Aug 2018
Posts: 62
Originally Posted by KaiserSoze
Ok,
On reserve in NYC. I live very near ATL.
I've read and I have always believed that driving to work trumps everything else. Is this true?
My situation.
Early upgrade so I am at the lower end of the reserve list in NYC; Senior enough to not sit ready every day, but too junior to get called with trips. Most all upgrades for the next 6 months will be senior to me. So It will be approximately 1 year to hold a line in NYC as a CA.
If I bid ATL, I would be able to drive to work. I would also be the plug and sitting airport reserve for 11 days each month. The junior line holder is almost 500 employee numbers above me.
I can probably hold ATL in 4-6 months as the plug
So lets assume 1.5 years to hold a line in ATL. (Yes..just a SWAG)
I realize everything will change in the next 12 months, but I'm talking about the next 6 - 12 months:
Here are the POS and NEG
STAY IN NYC
POS:
I am in the sweet spot where I don't sit RR everyday.
I will hold Long Call sooner.
I will get a line sooner.
I don't get called to fly because I'm too junior
Expensive (Crash Pad, food, etc)
Go to ATL
POS:
Home in bed every night
Cheaper
NEG:
RR for half the month.
Near impossible to drop Reserve days.
Almost forever to get Long Call
Forever to hold a line
Worse pay because of reserver (Min Guarantee)
I would really like to open the floor to all other pilots.
Is it always better to drive to work and sit reserve or commute and hold a line? Even if you are from another airline, please chime in. Does anyone have a similar experience? Did you make the right decision? The wrong decision?
Go........
On reserve in NYC. I live very near ATL.
I've read and I have always believed that driving to work trumps everything else. Is this true?
My situation.
Early upgrade so I am at the lower end of the reserve list in NYC; Senior enough to not sit ready every day, but too junior to get called with trips. Most all upgrades for the next 6 months will be senior to me. So It will be approximately 1 year to hold a line in NYC as a CA.
If I bid ATL, I would be able to drive to work. I would also be the plug and sitting airport reserve for 11 days each month. The junior line holder is almost 500 employee numbers above me.
I can probably hold ATL in 4-6 months as the plug
So lets assume 1.5 years to hold a line in ATL. (Yes..just a SWAG)
I realize everything will change in the next 12 months, but I'm talking about the next 6 - 12 months:
Here are the POS and NEG
STAY IN NYC
POS:
I am in the sweet spot where I don't sit RR everyday.
I will hold Long Call sooner.
I will get a line sooner.
- Easier to drop or Trade
- Better Pay
I don't get called to fly because I'm too junior
Expensive (Crash Pad, food, etc)
Go to ATL
POS:
Home in bed every night
Cheaper
NEG:
RR for half the month.
Near impossible to drop Reserve days.
Almost forever to get Long Call
Forever to hold a line
Worse pay because of reserver (Min Guarantee)
I would really like to open the floor to all other pilots.
Is it always better to drive to work and sit reserve or commute and hold a line? Even if you are from another airline, please chime in. Does anyone have a similar experience? Did you make the right decision? The wrong decision?
Go........
12-08-2018, 09:34 AM
#16
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Joined APC: Feb 2016
Posts: 1,237
Originally Posted by KaiserSoze
Ok,
On reserve in NYC. I live very near ATL.
I've read and I have always believed that driving to work trumps everything else. Is this true?
My situation.
Early upgrade so I am at the lower end of the reserve list in NYC; Senior enough to not sit ready every day, but too junior to get called with trips. Most all upgrades for the next 6 months will be senior to me. So It will be approximately 1 year to hold a line in NYC as a CA.
If I bid ATL, I would be able to drive to work. I would also be the plug and sitting airport reserve for 11 days each month. The junior line holder is almost 500 employee numbers above me.
I can probably hold ATL in 4-6 months as the plug
So lets assume 1.5 years to hold a line in ATL. (Yes..just a SWAG)
I realize everything will change in the next 12 months, but I'm talking about the next 6 - 12 months:
Here are the POS and NEG
STAY IN NYC
POS:
I am in the sweet spot where I don't sit RR everyday.
I will hold Long Call sooner.
I will get a line sooner.
I don't get called to fly because I'm too junior
Expensive (Crash Pad, food, etc)
Go to ATL
POS:
Home in bed every night
Cheaper
NEG:
RR for half the month.
Near impossible to drop Reserve days.
Almost forever to get Long Call
Forever to hold a line
Worse pay because of reserver (Min Guarantee)
I would really like to open the floor to all other pilots.
Is it always better to drive to work and sit reserve or commute and hold a line? Even if you are from another airline, please chime in. Does anyone have a similar experience? Did you make the right decision? The wrong decision?
Go........
On reserve in NYC. I live very near ATL.
I've read and I have always believed that driving to work trumps everything else. Is this true?
My situation.
Early upgrade so I am at the lower end of the reserve list in NYC; Senior enough to not sit ready every day, but too junior to get called with trips. Most all upgrades for the next 6 months will be senior to me. So It will be approximately 1 year to hold a line in NYC as a CA.
If I bid ATL, I would be able to drive to work. I would also be the plug and sitting airport reserve for 11 days each month. The junior line holder is almost 500 employee numbers above me.
I can probably hold ATL in 4-6 months as the plug
So lets assume 1.5 years to hold a line in ATL. (Yes..just a SWAG)
I realize everything will change in the next 12 months, but I'm talking about the next 6 - 12 months:
Here are the POS and NEG
STAY IN NYC
POS:
I am in the sweet spot where I don't sit RR everyday.
I will hold Long Call sooner.
I will get a line sooner.
- Easier to drop or Trade
- Better Pay
I don't get called to fly because I'm too junior
Expensive (Crash Pad, food, etc)
Go to ATL
POS:
Home in bed every night
Cheaper
NEG:
RR for half the month.
Near impossible to drop Reserve days.
Almost forever to get Long Call
Forever to hold a line
Worse pay because of reserver (Min Guarantee)
I would really like to open the floor to all other pilots.
Is it always better to drive to work and sit reserve or commute and hold a line? Even if you are from another airline, please chime in. Does anyone have a similar experience? Did you make the right decision? The wrong decision?
Go........
12-08-2018, 09:35 AM
#17
Line Holder
Thread Starter
Joined APC: Jul 2015
Posts: 58
Originally Posted by MIkeFavinger
Just curious what you do for SCR living that distance away? Drive closer every day? Crash pad?
Also, as others have stated, I will hold long call and a line in NYC, long before ATL. If I get ATL I will be the plug for the next 1.5-2 years easily.
My dilemma is this?
Do I live at home and sit RR, or commute with LCR or line?
I'm still seeing half and half. I already pick up flying in ATL on my days off when it is available. Its also a pay cut to sit in ATL and not fly as opposed to NYC with a line. (Even including the 750 per month expenses on NYC).
But thanks everyone for the input...
12-11-2018, 06:52 PM
#18
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Joined APC: Feb 2008
Position: FIRE ALPA
Posts: 3,082
For me a 30 minute drive to a reserve call was far better than a commute to a line that would at best be half same day commutable in NYC. But it'd be a no brainer to jump to a major that would require a commute (or move) Then again I'm getting too old for that move.
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