rvr1800

Yup that happened to me. Could've held 190 upgrade but was still locked in the bus. Not complaining. I know it costs a ton to train and you can't have guys going airframe to airframe every 6 months. I don't regret coming to the Airbus. That's for sure.

Speedbird2263

I was awarded a decent line that will take care of that way before I'd need to call. Apparently they can't see that on their end. I just didn't think I'd ever work this little on the "regional jet".

Xtreme87

It's a beautiful thing. I've gotten that landing currency email twice in the last 7 or so months. They bought a trip once, sure wasn't an NAS overnight either.

Speedbird2263

Indeed it is. I'm enjoying it while it lasts as I suppose I'll get very familiar with UIO & LIM in the not too distant future. C'est la vie.

Duksrule

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Mostly day trips/2day trips on the 190 and 3-day 10hr red eyes on the 320 (red eyes suck but super commutable).[/QUOTE]

Can you expand on this? I have always been told that the 190 is the commutable plane. I will be commuting to wherever I would end up at least till I could home something in FL. I can live with the red-eyes if I can make it home rather than living in a crashpad.

rightside02

One thing to consider guys is the amount of 320'flyinf we have here compared to 190, I have been on the Bus since I got here 4 years ago.

There are so many more trips on the 320 than the 190 that they don't even compare, way more pairings .

Which in turn means more open time, more broken trips , more guys going illegal , better pairings when irops happen etc , way more 8 hour turns on the buss compared to the 190, sure you won't get them off a bid but you will find a lot in open time once you learn how to use it .

I had buddies who started around me and I made way way more money then them simply due to the flexibility of the 320'simply cause of the larger amount of block hours .

I couldn't say which airplane which get you off of reserve quicker , but way way way more flying on the buss to shuffle around .

Sure you ll do some red eyes to islands that I would like to never fly to again in my career , but it's not worth bidding the 190 cause of it .

Flyby1206

The 190 is definitely commutable, and there are plenty of 4day trip, but most of the stuff that winds up in opentime for the reserves to fly are day trips or two day trips.

You'll sit a 6day stretch of RSV and won't get used til the last day for a 4-leg day trip flying BOS-PIT-BOS-EWR-BOS and finish later in the day (6pm-10pm). This could make your commute on that last day difficult depending where you commute from.

The 320 on reserve has a lot of 3-day 10hr trips where you leave late on Day 1 (6pm-10pm departure) fly for 4-6hrs, overnight for 24hrs, then fly 4-6hrs back to base and land between 6am-10am. They are great trips for commuting, just low productivity for lineholders so they dump them into opentime whenever possible.

BeatNavy

I wanted the bus so I could have the possibility of west coast 24 hour overnights (where I live). And I was tired of regional flying. Our class didn't have any 320s. But for the first year and a half I would have been on reserve and likely not gotten many/any overnights to my home city and only 12-13 days off. Instead I get mostly commutable trips, at least on one end, and usually about 16-17 days off a month. On reserve I can do a bunch of long call and pre releases in the slow months. My record so far is being at work (short call and/or flying) only 6 days while being at home the rest. Can't do that on the bus. But that's all based on heavy 190 FO staffing so no guarantees I can do that perpetually. Pick your poison from what's available. Each has pros and cons.

Speedbird2263

Spot on. This mirrors my experience exactly with the added benefit of overnights at home until I can drive to work. There's no amount of lipstick you can put on that pig of commuting but all things even for at least the 1st yr and QOL, it's hard to beat the 190 whilst staffing on that fleet is heavy.

2isclear

I'm out on the NJ/PA border. Anyone drive in from that area? Not looking forward to the drive over Staten Island and wondering about how long I can expect. How is the shuttle from parking lot to T5?