Can a married pilot&FA have same schedule

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05-08-2018, 04:34 AM

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I think some regional airlines may still have identical pairings for pilots and flight attendants. It may be possible at one of them.

05-08-2018, 05:55 AM

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Joke may be on me, but I got a chuckle out of everybody answering from the pilot perspective and pooping on FAs. I'd bet a beer an FA asked.

05-08-2018, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by rickair7777

Maybe. But once you have kids you're bidding opposite schedules, game over.

Not if it's your third or fourth marriage ... Just saying.

05-08-2018, 06:06 AM

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It took 32 years?!

05-08-2018, 06:13 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by laurabos

How does the bidding work ?

The airline creates a schedule of the trips to be flown, usually called "lines." The most senior Captain and F/O and F/A bid for whichever line they want. The next most senior crewmembers bid for what they want but in case that is also the line the most senior crewmembers wanted, they put down there second choice also. It goes down the seniority list and the bottom folks get what is left that nobody else wanted.

05-08-2018, 06:16 AM

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Man it's like looking into a mirror with some of these posts.

Wife and I flew together all the time pre kids. Basically saw Europe on the company's dime. Probably flew 60% of our trips together.

Now in the last 7 years or so we've flown together 3 times total. Opposite schedules work the best, second only to what was allude to earlier:

She'll basically stop working. No minimum to fly here and she does like 4 trips a year or something.

05-08-2018, 06:16 AM

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Why on earth would you want to??!! I know married couples who are FAs and ALWAYS fly the same schedule. Not sure how they do it, but it would make me insane!