Great Lakes Schedule
 

Hey GLA guys...I was wondering what your work schedule is like...for example on 5 off 2.....Thanks!

Anyone?
 

Does anyone know....about the schedule. And possibly the communte from Denver to Houston?

Commuting at great lakes is a pipe dream.

While I cannot speak for Great Lakes, I did work for Air Midwest (a Mesa Air Group company) and the schedules were similar. We would usually work 3-5 days and get 2-3 off. Once in a great while you might get 4 days off at a stretch. The days are typically no less than 5 legs and can go up quite a bit from there. I once did 14 in one day...without exceeding 8 hours! Commuting at companies like this is usually a tough exercise, but can be done. You'll eat up a bunch of your time off each week.

I can tell you that commuting from IAH-DEN on Continental would be nearly impossible for a non CAL (or affiliate employee). Because CAL used to have a base there, it is very hard for anyone to commute - even CAL employees. I have no idea about UAL.

You should try doing a search on the GLA forum. The pilots there seem really happy to answer questions about GLA.

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It's not as bad as everybody talks it up to be. All commutes suck, but you have 3 airlines doing DEN-IAH, some of those AC have 2 JS's and go on a first come first serve basis for offline pilots.

My schedule for this month as a junior FO:

1-off
2,3-2 day trip
4-6-off
7-12-4 day trip, followed by 2 day trip
13-15-off
16-21-3 day trip, followed by another 3 day trip
22-off
23-25-3 day trip
26-30-off

Not sure what's going to happen on the 31st, honestly.

13 days off, 83 hours of credit. This is an average-slightly better than average schedule given the Beech lines right now. Schedules over on the EMB-120 side are different, I'm sure.

Hope this helps.

EMB has lots of 5 day trips made by the combination of a 2 day, late finsih in DEN, with an early show the next morning for a three day. Lines are published with a decent amount of flying, but WILL be brought down to 75 hour guarantee because of cancellations for Mx and Crew availability. If we're more than a half hour behind schedule the flight gets downgraded to the Beechcraft and operates without us, no cancellation pay. EMB has 13 lines, 4 of which are highspeeds, standups, illegals, nap, continuous-duty-overnights, whatever you call em. Beech QOL is slightly - SLIGHTLY - better if you have any seniority whatsoever. But on the other hand a Beech FO also has to be the b!tch, so it's probably a toss-up.

Oh, please! They are hub-based now! I used to commute for GLA when I was based in Williston, ND. PDX-MSP-BIS-ISN, now THAT's a commute! Actually, very nearly everybody at Lakes commuted out of the outstations.