Part time at the majors?
04-13-2014 | 11:03 AM
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Part Time?
Been looking for answers on here but can't find what I'm looking for. I'm getting ready to retire from the AF and I'm a bit undecided about whether I want to fly for the airlines or not. The thought of being away from my family for half of the next 20 years causes me pause. So my question for all you out there in APC land is: is it possible to fly part time for a major? I've heard you can sell trips and reduce your days to around 8 a month. Any insight is much appreciated.
The point is that management would be more than happy to pay you less by making you part time. We should all demand full time jobs, and have the ability to give up trips if we want.
04-13-2014 | 11:10 AM
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First, you wouldn't be gone for half as you add vacation time. I now have 5 weeks vacation with 6 around the corner. Plus, if you work five 3 day trips for 15 hours each your still only gone for 10 nights. At DAL you can put your trips on the swap board and fly as little as you want. I could drop my entire month most months if I wanted to.
04-13-2014 | 11:58 AM
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The mechanics of how you drop it vary by airline, but generally the trip goes into a pool of "open time," to be picked up by another Lineholder or assigned to a reserve.
04-13-2014 | 11:59 AM
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First, you wouldn't be gone for half as you add vacation time. I now have 5 weeks vacation with 6 around the corner. Plus, if you work five 3 day trips for 15 hours each your still only gone for 10 nights. At DAL you can put your trips on the swap board and fly as little as you want. I could drop my entire month most months if I wanted to.
04-13-2014 | 12:03 PM
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04-13-2014 | 12:05 PM
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Generally dropping trips is like getting unpaid time off.
Some folks do it to drop unproductive trips and pick up something worth more so they get paid more to be gone the same amount of time they would have been gone anyway.
And some do it just to not work.
It doesn't come out of vacation or sick time unless the pilot contract allows it.
Another source of time off is if there is transition conflict or legality conflict language in the contract. Depending on how its written depends on whether you get paid time off for the flying that is removed from your schedule due to a conflict.
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