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How's the commute out of Rapid City, SD for Pinnacle? How long on reserve? How often would I be able to be at home with the family? Geezzz.... is there anything else I should be asking about? Anything is helpful guys and I do appreciate it.

Ask spooled. She will give you the short version of Family Guys Peter getting castrated.

Ok, that was knee jerk. We will go with vasectomy.

Do a search for information on Pinnacle. Unfortunately, we are about the only place hiring right now...

I don't think there are many jumpseaters out of Rapid. A few NWA guys I know of..

Reserve I'd guess to be 6 months? MSP is going really senior now, since the reduction of flying.

Count on getting 10 days off a month for about 8 months. You can plan on losing a day each time you commute. More than likely it would be RAP-MSP-DTW/MEM. Have fun with that! Tons of commuters from MSP-DTW.

$600 take home every two weeks on first year pay... Hope you have a sugar momma.

LOL. I'm in a good mood. Surprising since I've had 1 day off in the last 9 days!! I think I'm too burned out to be ****ed off.

How do you guys manage working there? I commute from LAX to EWR and with my 11-12 days off a month on reserve, I still manage to only lose only 1-2 of my off days. Usually able to fly in and leave on work days and I have to cross the entire freakin' country. I'm from Minnesota by the way and turned down ever going to Mesaba and Pinnacle. Funny thing is I can usually get 1-2 overnights in MSP to hang out with the family or friends.

Beware! Other threads on this board will give details on how QOL and morale are somewhere between fair and miserable depending on who to talk to. A two-leg commute may quickly move you a lot closer to the miserable end of the scale. Not to say don't come to Pinnacle, but just aware of what you're getting into.

now come on spooled. if you are as senior as you say you are then there is no way you have just 1 day off in 9 unless you did it to yourself. drop me a pm and i will show you the magic that is pref bid. life is good and i can show you how!


we have several guys that commute from lax to dtw mem and msp. and they do just fine. you have to take what spooled says with a CAN of salt. :)

You can hold a CDO/hispeed line that is 100% commutable that gives you 10-11 days off within 2 months in Memphis. Look at the June '08 awards. There are people waaaaaay junior with 11-10 off, and that's 11-10 hard days off, as in your last day you're done at 8-9AMish and your first day you report at 6PMish (if you can even call them hispeeds out of Memphis anyways). Bottom line--you get 6-7 hours of sleep, so it's like a "hispeed light," and your 10 days off you will be at home, assuming you get a CDO line, which is easy to get right now.

The people I've heard complain are Memphis captains and MSP FOs Probably b/c those are senior bases for each as far as I know.

Seems like we're nearing well-staffed on the FO side. Plenty of new hires in the pipeline, and with the TDYs from MSP things seem to be balancing out.

I am a little tired of hearing MSP based FOs complaining about deadheading to DTW and MEM all the time to fly...change your frigging base or quit whining about it. We're always welcoming down here in the dirty south.

Or did spooled upgrade recently?

Also if you have training in a month, pref bid screws you.