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Originally Posted by SkylineAviation
Thanks for the responses. I've been turned into a commuter at my regional and can not accurately predict upgrades where I'm at due to all the uncertainty. But I do live in miami and like the idea of not commuting anymore.
Is min guarantee still only to be expected or have things changed and pick up OT or get more hours? How is health care and/or other benefits? Also how many days away on trips typically?
I know some these questions have been answered in previous posts, just seeing if anything has changed. Thanks!
All of my and Anthony210's previous posts are still valid. Even with being undermanned currently, there's little (read rare, but possible) opportunity to break guarantee. That's driven by scheduling's default trip mentality - commercial out as a whole crew, fly a day or two, then commercial home. Home for a day or two then repeat. The days spent commercialing combined with breaks at home make it very hard to get enough block time to break guarantee.
That being said, they will offer to buy your days off when we're busy, and that pays extra.
The guys in Amsterdam will likely all break guarantee, but that's because the scheduling is completely different. The AMS trips are all turns, and there's no commercialing, which results in a far more efficient usage of the crews and more actual block hours. Holding AMS is a crap shoot. One guy held it that was in the second-most recently hired class.