Delta or United
03-30-2022 | 03:30 PM
#211
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From: Airbus
You forgot to tell him to get off your lawn.
03-30-2022 | 03:41 PM
#212
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From: Airbus 320 Right Seat
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
03-30-2022 | 03:49 PM
#213
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From: CRJ FO
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
03-31-2022 | 06:39 AM
#214
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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.
04-01-2022 | 11:46 AM
#216
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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.
04-01-2022 | 04:37 PM
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04-01-2022 | 05:08 PM
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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.
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