PT6flyer

There are less hours on the 200 in trips and open time.

The reserve on the 900 is shorter than the 200 because thats the growing fleet.

If a lineholder you will get more days off on the 900. Some guys here hit the lottery and never sat reserve on the 200 because it was the growing fleet. I was one of those guys and even I'm moving over because the nyc 200 schedules are brutal.

You all should have mentioned if he gets here on the next couple classes the 900 will be available because they will have to continue dropping seat locks for the time being (18-01). Maybe the company is wrong, but they can't enforce the 18 month seatlock unless they enforce all the seat locks, and they say 1801 will be more of the same. They can't even enforce a training lock, as guys are upgrading in new hire class.

42jeff

I did it. They didn't ask for a receipt I just swiped the card and was done. I've noticed that with places that sound legit they don't ask.

As for spending the extra.....stock up on bandaid and anything else you can buy in a pharmacy that isn't a vitamin

HighFlight

More days off than 17-20? (What does flight length have to do with days off, 900 vs. 200?)

I have never been more than 7 in line in ATL. And while the 900 obviously climbs better than the 200, I haven’t seen one yet that can top those 50-55K summer thunderstorms. The only time all summer I ever got diverted from ATL was when they shut the airport down due to wind shear. Once.

I’ll take ATL flying over NY flying any day. Never in ATL have I taxied for 1-2 hours. The worst part about ATL is the ramp vehicles that seem determined to hit us. But I have been jacked up several times when there has been a NY IROP (weekly, it seems at times), and much worse than any flying I have done out of ATL.

PT6flyer

How are you this clueless?

Productivity begets time off. The bid packet gives you all the raw data and the union has explained multiple times why the 900 gets more days off (and often more credit). Our union, that runs pbs.

If you're very senior in a base, any base, your qol is high but that's nothing to do with fleet type. The majority of pilots will and have done better on the 900, because the majority of pilots at this company are not now, nor will they ever be senior. those are the facts, and they are not in dispute.

Read a union communication every once in a while. Besides that, a mass exodus is happening on the 200 for pilots junior to you, you think that's vanity, or perhaps are you thinking back to how remarkably detached you are and realizing "you know someone explained this to me once and i was waiting for my turn to say 'well ive got 17 off' instead of listening to facts being relayed and now I'm realizing I should listen instead of assuming i already know everything.

Iceberg

Chill out, dude. Did you take his preference of the 200 personally? You are correct, in most situations the 900 has a better schedule. In other situations, do to base choice or some other preference, the 200 can be better. I do better on the 200 currently than I would on the 900. So I choose the 200. I realize a seat lock puts added pressure on the decision.

1337pilot

Unless it's a smaller station I have never seen DL pilots in our hotels (SYR, BHM) come to mind, the BHM hotel is actually very nice. Take RDU for example, DL FAs stay in the Indigo we stay in, I don't know where the pilots stay, but it's not there, I have never seen a DL pilot on our van. Nothing like riding in the van at 5am still half asleep having to listen to cackle from a senior DL FA about her daugther's boyfriend. Or ours that just expect you to hold their coffee for them so they can get in the van with giant heels they don't know how to walk in

But yes, I agree the mainline ones are a lot more professional looking and acting, I do have to give them that. It's easy to tell the difference between one of ours and mainlines in the terminal, even if the uniforms look somewhat similar. And yes, we do have some professional ones that do a good job are intelligent and I don't mind interacting with, but in NYC those are few and far between.

1337pilot

You get paid to fly 75 hours, longer flights per work day gets you closer to that number. The less days you can use getting to or close to that number the more days off you'll get it. Not a hard concept. As was stated before if you're a senior lifer maybe you do better on the 200 but the rest of us wont.

And no, the 900 can't top a 55,000ft storm. However, while the 200 is stuck at FL270 trying to accelerate to cruise speed with the throttles at CLB long after you've leveled off in a stratus layer in which that tstorm is embedded, the 900 is comfortably flying along at .80 at FL360 in VMC well above that stratus layer where we can easily just see the big puffy cloud ahead of us and go around it. And if you've burned off enough fuel or don't have many pax you could go to FL380 and easily top those pesky ones that only top out FL350. It's fun topping a short one FL380 with the lightning below you at night, should try it sometime if you have a very light 200

wiggy15

All that's nice and all but let's talk about the real reason to go 900.......first class snacks and double the complaining about how cold it is in the back.

AlphaLima

I'm guessing we don't get a companion if we have a domestic partner or spouse on file already.? And what priority do you think we will be now with the change?

HeyOneTaco

You can’t have your wife and your girlfriend. Travel companion is great for those who aren’t married or living with their significant other. I’m guessing S3A because retirees/other travel as S3B