I am curious to see what my wife and children look like.

Your post does get at the meat of my post. I can see bidding out of Atlanta for quality of life. One strategy would be to find a base that has a lot of Atlanta overnights.

The take away for new hires ,if you live in Columbus Ohio, Mexico City, or Bogota; bid Atlanta.

Bar,

Hang in there - with all these new hires getting pumped into the system you will soon have your pick of the bid package. Or at least not your last pick.

Scoop

Nice post Ghilis. Please don't let this kind of toxicity ruin your young career here.

I agree with the bold. Don't get me wrong, Delta is light years ahead and better then any regional.... But the schedules are horrid.

Every month, "coverage" awards back me into an 11 or 12 day block of days on. ***!!!! Sometimes swapping with the pot helps... But others I'm stuck on the road that long. Total shock.

I hope DAL pilots try to get a max 4 days on, min of 3 days off after a rotation. Which could be waived in PBS if a pilot really wants to load up a schedule. Idk. I'm still not sure how the 747 folks do those 12 day trips! I rather be home.

12 day work blocks? In a narrowbody? This can't be common?

It is not at all uncommon. Especially for mid seniority types. PBS will fill you up to the limit and as it tries to fit stuff in, the trips become less and less productive. It sees the 30 break and 12 in base as goals, not limitations.

All of this goes on BEFORE your PBS bid requests are even considered.

Again, during indoc, query them all you can about coverage awards. From the months of April, June, July, August, (sometimes September), November, December (and sometimes January) you will have very little influence over your schedule and with short staffing, no real way to change it the result.

Probably the best option is to be in the top 15% where coverage never reaches you, or bottom 10% where your schedule is so inefficient that you get some time off (and are just happy to be a XXX pilot).

Okay, not a 12 day rotation, but say 3, four day trips stacked.

Maybe only the junior folks get this... But many in my category do see these.

Again.... Like Buck said.... It's the coverage awards which do this.

I understand what you're saying. And I'm equally surprised. A family member of mine is new to DAL. Just trying to learn real life examples of how the CBA (PWA sorry) works.

There, FYP

Thanks Gloopy. I did actually bid down, but probably not far enough.

Probably should consider ...