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Originally Posted by Margaritaville (Post 3397127)

Go fly a kite ya former Skywest United half wing troll. I've got more time inside the marker than you have in this whole industry. You're a laughing stock. Listen more, talk less and maybe you'll actually learn something.

You forgot to tell him to get off your lawn.

Being in north Florida , doesn’t this allow you to make the drive to ATL pretty easy ? A long drive is a still better than the commute I’ve done from from Florida to the Northeast for the last 13 years. The guys that can drive even as a back up , always kill the premium pay too

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Originally Posted by rightside02 (Post 3397490)

Its about a 5-6 hour drive. Not impossible but not great either.

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Originally Posted by chrisreedrules (Post 3396710)

Flowing is an option and the prospects of the bonus and MIA are attractive. I don’t want to give up even a month of seniority though. I think the coming recession will at best slow things quite a bit for a couple years and at worst we *might* see furloughs. Delta also seems to have far superior reserve rules than United. And I also think there is value in getting on a mainline seniority list and getting 1,000+ pilots junior to you as fast as possible *if* furloughs were to happen.

I’d take Delta over United in your situation, a 5 hr drive is nice to have as a backup just in case especially around the holidays. I would at least send the AA recruiters an email and see if you can get an interview soon just to have another option. Which airline would you retire most senior at? Delta has hired a bunch of young pilots since 2014 but maybe retiring at number 1000 is better there than 500 at AA or UAL? I don’t know how tough the JAX-MIA commute is.

What's commuting like at UAL? can you reserve jumpseat? what's the commuter policy like?

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Originally Posted by FlannelDaddy (Post 3398428)

What's commuting like at UAL? can you reserve jumpseat? what's the commuter policy like?

Commuting is fine as long as you’re commuting from a place with a lot of frequency and not much competition for seats by other commuters. That being said, as long as you’re abiding by the commuter policy (below), there’s no repercussions for missing a trip other than losing the pay, assuming you’re off probabtion. Our reserve rules are very commuter non-friendly and probably the worst of any large carrier. No, you can’t reserve the jumpseat. It’s just seniority driven. Show up 1 sec before the doors close and you’re more senior than the other guy, then you get it. You do book it through the app, it’s just not a reservation like other carriers.

Commuter policy is that you must have a primary and a backup flight on any carrier that will get you there prior to report.

How bad is the commute from BNA to ATL for Delta? And from BNA to IAD for United?

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Originally Posted by hifiaudio177 (Post 3398458)

How bad is the commute from BNA to ATL for Delta? And from BNA to IAD for United?

Not a lot of flights to IAD. Much easier commute to EWR, particularly if you are bidding trips out of LGA. Tons of flights there.

Ah got it... How Junior is widebody flying out of EWR?

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Originally Posted by hifiaudio177 (Post 3398578)

Ah got it... How Junior is widebody flying out of EWR?

There were recent new hires offered wide bodies at the moment, but to hold a line as an IRO, you’d be looking at many years. It’s anyone’s guess as to how many years, though, given the COVID impact on international travel & the pace of hiring. When travel returns, people may flood the bids on top of you for a long time.