I have to comment on this, the Delta pairings are absolutely horrendous. Completely ruin your QOL and gets you minimum days off. Union has been stonewalled by management in their attempts to adress this. I used to live next to the airport in SEA and I’d rather commute to LA flying AA pairings than live in base trying to hold a decent schedule on delta trips, at any seniority level. I was 30% there getting min days off every single time
In LAX I was getting 15-17 off at 25%, I was bidding commutable trips that start after 1300 which blocked a lot of trips but still enough to get a couple high credit AA trips each month. In Jan before upgrading I had 18 off. YMMV but I liked LA. Anyone living in base in LA is living the best life compass can provide if you ask me
Expect this for the rest of your career at CPZ, with the arrival of A220, thats what DL have left for us which can’t be taken away by the new plane.
Has nothing to do with that. It's the way the pairings are put together. Have on day where you fly 4 legs and 6-7 hours and one day you fly one leg and get 4 hours. Could easily make pairings that average more than 5 hours a day. I'd rather have longer days with a few extra legs to have 3-5 more days off every month. Rather than like 80-85 hours and 11 days off is garbage
Has nothing to do with that. It's the way the pairings are put together. Have on day where you fly 4 legs and 6-7 hours and one day you fly one leg and get 4 hours. Could easily make pairings that average more than 5 hours a day. I'd rather have longer days with a few extra legs to have 3-5 more days off every month. Rather than like 80-85 hours and 11 days off is garbage
Sorry i thought you were whining about doing 4-5 legs a day for min pay and not flying longer legs.