True story. Happened with us too. And a lot of owners who were using large cabin aircraft suddenly decided they wouldn’t mind one stop transcons in the small cabin fleets.

Deadheading back to base on a reserve assignment is kind of a hidden gem. We have so few flights per day between stations that oftentimes they have to give you a long overnight and deadhead you back during your last day RAP so you wind up getting home quite a bit earlier by dropping the DH and jumpseating back.

What you just mentioned is a, LAS-IAH or DFW 1AM departure with 24+ hrs layover and DH back to LAS. It ended up being 30 hrs credit on the X list. Those are the types of calls some of the Vegas crew was getting in June

For sure. There’s very little difference in product once you get past the first class cabin. Only on Spirit you aren’t sitting amongst a bunch of pretentious ‘I should have upgraded’ road warriors who fly twice a year to grandmas.

My experience has been that as a RSV pilot
you will deadhead as many legs as you operate. Some guys love deadheading and some loathe the experience.

Been on rsv for the last year, had maybe 4 or 5 deadheads. So YMMV. Good buddy of mine has had about as many deadheads as operating legs.

Hey, at least it all pays the same

I was on a delta new 321 last week and it blew our planes away. We have a real problem with cleanliness. Our planes aren’t cleaned as well or refreshed as often. They get worn and gross much quicker as well. I never see carpets on other airlines that look like ours. I also never see lavs like ours. How many toilet seats have you seen that are cracked and chipping paint and the plane just came out of a big check. These things just wont get fixed without writing them up. How about the inside of the toilet right after the cleaners have come. I never see that nastiness on other airlines. Our dedication to cabin appearance is zero. Some of it we can control as pilots

Guess you haven’t flown on American...

I have and their 737s are torcher. It’s been a while but I didn’t notice them being overtly gross though. Haven’t been on a bus