Would like feedback from other pilots
#1
Would like feedback from other pilots
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........
#2
Well Atlanta is going senior so if you’re that junior in New York, you won’t be getting Atlanta any time soon.
When that time comes why commute when you can drive to work. I don’t get some people’s logic. “Well i get 13 days off here and I’ll get 17 there so I’ll commute from hub to hub”. Yeah and you’ll lose those extra 4 days to commuting.
When that time comes why commute when you can drive to work. I don’t get some people’s logic. “Well i get 13 days off here and I’ll get 17 there so I’ll commute from hub to hub”. Yeah and you’ll lose those extra 4 days to commuting.
#4
Lineholder
Joined APC: Mar 2013
Position: Death by Powerpoint
Posts: 447
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........
Then again, I sit LCR and can do the same thing as I would be doing sitting SCR in base, I just have to worry about getting to work when called, and getting home after the trip.
#5
Hat Wearer
Joined APC: Oct 2018
Position: 4 stripes CRJ
Posts: 50
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........
#6
#8
Would like feedback from other pilots
I work for a different airline, but but if it was me. I wouldn’t commute. All that extra pay your are commuting for is going into crash pads and commuting. So it pay will be a wash.
Plus you are probably commuting on days off sometimes, those lost days are wash being at home.
Plus treat driving to RR as you are going into a regular 9-5 job...... But only where you have to do it for a few times a month (10-11 isn’t bad compare to our M-F 9-5 counterparts).
So to me, your decision is simple. Don’t commute.
Keep in mind, there are more opportunities for open time in base as well.
That’s just me. But I live in base for the airline I work for....
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Plus you are probably commuting on days off sometimes, those lost days are wash being at home.
Plus treat driving to RR as you are going into a regular 9-5 job...... But only where you have to do it for a few times a month (10-11 isn’t bad compare to our M-F 9-5 counterparts).
So to me, your decision is simple. Don’t commute.
Keep in mind, there are more opportunities for open time in base as well.
That’s just me. But I live in base for the airline I work for....
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#9
Layover Master
Joined APC: Jan 2013
Position: Seated
Posts: 4,310
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.
#10
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2017
Posts: 2,767
I work for a different airline, but but if it was me. I wouldn’t commute. All that extra pay your are commuting for is going into crash pads and commuting. So it pay will be a wash.
Plus you are probably commuting on days off sometimes, those lost days are wash being at home.
Plus treat driving to RR as you are going into a regular 9-5 job...... But only where you have to do it for a few times a month (10-11 isn’t bad compare to our M-F 9-5 counterparts).
So to me, your decision is simple. Don’t commute.
Keep in mind, there are more opportunities for open time in base as well.
That’s just me. But I live in base for the airline I work for....
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Plus you are probably commuting on days off sometimes, those lost days are wash being at home.
Plus treat driving to RR as you are going into a regular 9-5 job...... But only where you have to do it for a few times a month (10-11 isn’t bad compare to our M-F 9-5 counterparts).
So to me, your decision is simple. Don’t commute.
Keep in mind, there are more opportunities for open time in base as well.
That’s just me. But I live in base for the airline I work for....
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