There's plenty of all night flying at AA. Takes a long time to be able to avoid it.

Out of ANC, on the the MD11, I'd say 60-65% of my flying is daytime flying. It varies based on time of season.

My pairing is a three leg pairing wheras two of the three legs are daytime flying.

The domestic folks do just the opposite, probably 90%+ of their flying is at night.

And UPS has MIA and ONT bases, both pretty close to the beach.

I left a Continental Airlines 737 gig to come to UPS, and I fly more daytime here at UPS than I did at Continental. I am based in Anchorage on the MD-11.

Almost all of my trips are daytime, except for the last leg back from Asia to Anchorage. We leave Asia in the evening, and arrive in Alaska in the early afternoon. So half of that leg is daylight also.

I've always liked flying at night so I wasn't worried about it when I decided to come over. Now that I am here, I don't fly nights as much as I used to. Go figure!

Who would have ever, ever thunk that flying packages for a living could entail top pay, flying a widebody as a junior copilot, and DAYLIGHT trips?

What's the world coming to...

Sounds like a super gig! Hope more are available for the rest of us

DAL and CAL are ranked together with everyone. I think based info here and friends there that DAL is a much better place to work than CAL.

1. Better ins from day 1,
2. Better international growth
3 Just getting ready to start a 700+ pilot hiring binge.
4. Better pay and work rules.

So in my opinion DAL over CAL

Is it true that delta has some "Delta Pilot Wives Club", and becuase of them the F/A's don't stay in the same hotel as the pilots. That blows if you ask me, at least the CAL F/A's stay at the same hotel as the pilots, some of them look like they would be a lot of fun................

No. They sometimes stay in different hotels in the domestic system due to their lack of a union. Their hotel preferences also sometimes differ from the pilots; we want to be near food and drink, while they want to be near shopping.

I read elsewhere that CAL was losing half it's pilots in the next ten years to retirements. DAL has no where near that rate. So DAL hires a bunch in the short term, and CAL continues to hire steady and retire steady what would you do? Try looking at the next ten years and ask yourself where you would rather be.
Just my opine.