Commuting
 

I have been out of the 121 game for quite a while now and it seems as though i may be diving back in. i am curious for those of you that commute, are there any good sites or sources out there to use to see flights between cities, number of seats available, and number of non revs or jumpseaters listed for a flight?

Whichever company you work for should give you access to be able to check load status, list and see non-revs listed for that particular partner such as United, Delta,Us Airways.

passrider.com

True. However, UAL's "flying together" employee site (formerly Skynet) can be so horribly inaccurate of what's really going on. I can be at the gate, looking at the site, while the departure monitor is COMPLETELY different as far as seats available, seats yet to be assigned, whatever.

Meanwhile, I can to the UAL app on my phone and look at the sub menu/seat map and it jives with the departure screen/real time info. To include the non-revs listed. But that's just United, other companies may be different. I heard that DAL's is pretty accurate, no personal experience though.

flyzed.com. Sometimes accurate, sometimes not for individual flights, though it will always give you a fairly solid idea about how smoothly things will generally go.

passrider.com for sure. If you need to know loads on another airline, just call their reservation line and say you're a pilot with another airline, and ask how the loads look.

....and use FedEx and UPS...one of the best perks of being a 121 pilot, imho.

What are you doing now, and why are you getting back in?

I never used UAL's when it was Skynet since everything is always a cluster with them.DAL's is really nice, you can see where you are on the list in priority at the gate and the website.There is no feeling that you are getting screwed over.

I am an instructor for a very well known (and world wide) flight training company.and i am bored. cant see myself doing this until retirement

Does God kill a kitten if you type "FlightSafety"?

Doesn't sound as professional or cool if you just say who you work for. But if you put (and world wide) people will be like "whoa who do you work for, wow can I work with you", then they realize flight safety or some other company and they think, "oh, nice try". Not sure if god does, but every time I have to the CVG FS I kill a cat (its a dump).

Commuting is a form of punishment. I hate it and you will too.

UAL's will show the non-revs as well as where you stand on the employee site as well, new feature when they merged with CAL as COAIR always showed it. It's the seats available that are grossly inaccurate between the employee site and the .com site.

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I didn't realize how hard commuting is. Even holding a line now it sucks up five-six extra nights per month and god knows how many hours you could have spend at home being productive or spending time with friends and family.

If I had it to do again I'd seriously consider waiting, even at considerable loss of seniority, to get hired at a carrier with a base in my hometown. I even know that's no guarantee, but wow would my QOL be better. Other than a tripling of pay or my girlfriend growing beer-dispensing boobs, it would be the single best thing to improve quality of life.

Nope. but guys have been fired for much less at the company i work for-but the smarta$$ remarks sure are helpful. Thanks to those with up to date info.

If non sense on an online forum gets to you then you might really have to toughen up before dealing with rude gate agents, low pay, and a horrible qol. Welcome back!

For UAL, you don't need to actually access info online, just copy this down and keep it handy for future reference, it is valid for pretty much any UA flight:

Avail
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I don't miss commuting one bit !!

now that's a visual!