FTv3 , 04-27-2021 06:26 AM
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5/8 and week on off’s seem to be a mixed bag of day or nite sort (hub) flying. Some easy, some not so pretty. Here’s a random one:
-1900L Sunday show for a DH up to SJC
- 18hr l/o then 1900 departure to SDF
- sit sort then go to MFE at 0430, l/o
- same type of thing for next 2 nights but leaving out of SDF, a 2 legger to the l/o
- finish thur am in BOI, CML DH back to domicile that evening. (This is a paid ticket).
Here’s an easy 4 day:
-1am show, operate ONT - SLC - SDF, l/o
- day 2, 2 am show operate SDF LAX
- day 3, go back to Sdf at 5 am
-day 4, back to ONT, finish at 5am
Flipping through it, to me, nothing seems ‘horrible (relatively speaking).’ Looks like standard night flying though the devil is in the details so I’ll defer to the ONT peeps to tell it how it is.
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Bottom ONT FOs got reserve, VTOs to those just above as well as base lines (mixed bag lines). The 5/8 stuff tended to go to the more senior but awards seem really scattered across the board compared to what I’m used to.
The MD (SDF) flies to ONT quite a bit. Imagine one could find a nice niche living in SoCal flying that thing.
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Days off per PP (28 days): A quick, and I mean a quick scan of various bid packs mixed with what I’ve seen... the company has you for 14/28 on average. Note that that’s on paper at bid award time. DH deviations, conflict bidding, trip trading can all lower days away from home or you can drop trips (pay) to do the same. Perhaps some of those ONT trips have 2330 show times or 2am finishes which counts as a “day” vs a day off, skewing the numbers...?
IMHO, if you don’t live close to ONT just bid SDF 75/76 and get a feel for the system’s idiosyncrasies for the first 6months to a year. Transfer into ONT if it looks palatable. If you live on ONT, bid it. If it sucks you can always bid out to Sdf. You’re not going to know until you get your feet wet.
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“Reserve goes senior here:”
This is an outdated paradigm. It’s highly dependent on fleet, seat, domicile, staffing levels, reserve type, and global events.