Yes you can, but it’s never guaranteed until you find someone who’s willing to switch with you and get it set with crew scheduling.

So on the flex schedule, you bid each month for your next month’s schedule, but what are your choices? Are you just picking between a couple of 8/6’s or a 15/13, or are there other options to choose from? Do you just put in for certain days off? Can you get trips that are less than 8 days or longer than 15 or anything in between?

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You put in for certain days off that you want. You can choose our own max of 8,9, or 10 days in a row. You get minimum days off which increase the more days on you work. No less than 4 days if you work 8 and no less than 6 if you work 10. Not hard numbers. Just kind of spit balling here a little.

Can you go back and forth between the 8/6 and 15/13 over the course of a year? For instance, if you have a particular day in which you would like to have off, can you go to a 15/13 for a month, then go back to 8/6?

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No. You're locked in with your 8/6 or 15/13 for a year after bidding it. But like someone else said, you can swap scheds with someone for particular time off, but often times it's hard to get someone to line up with.

I don't think that's entirely true. I've been told you can join the Flex schedule for 4 months at a time. Once you join the Flex schedule though you're locked into it for at least that long. If you chose to go back to 8/6 or 15/13 you have to contact crew planning to get reinstalled into the fixed schedule. Everyone I've talked to though that's on the flex has stayed there, so I don't know what that looks like.

Im on the X. If we fill up on a transcon at an Atlantic, we double at 900 gallons and usually, whether or not we double, we split the points between the two pilots. On a transcon out of TEB I can make about $45-55 give or take, plus whatever we save on fuel if I'm the pilot flying. Fuel savings are assigned to the PF for that leg.

True. But I think he was asking if it’s possible to bounce back n forth between the 8/6 and 15/13....which I believe isn’t possible. But you’re right about the flex. You can try it for four months and go back to your regular Sched if you don’t like it.

If I accept a junior assignment my minimum guarantee for each day is $1,924.74. That's $7,698.96 for a 4 day trip. I think your aspirations are set way, way too low. And I'm at the 9th worst airline.

Please provide the name of the airline and details breaking down these numbers Mac.