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Originally Posted by Jersdawg
20/120 CRJ lines are 11 days off. If you take the lack of commutability into consideration, your true days off drops. I picked a random line of the 11 day off lines, and three of the four day trips are early starts, requiring a commuter to fly in the night before. Take away .5 of a day off for each trip and you're looking at 9.5 True Days Off per month. A random 13 day off line, three trips finishing late, bringing that one down to 11.5 TDO. Now a random 15 day off line. Five trips either start too early or finish too late! You're swapping your body clock all month! Subtract 2.5 and that is 12.5 TDO. The lack of commutability is killing these schedules, and it doesn't seem to correlate with seniority much, either. That 15 day off line is a three day trip line, one typically bid by the most senior pilots.
One more addition - the CRJ lines are typically better than the EMJ lines.
The EMB lines in DFW are much much worse for FOs and CAs alike.
I have some contacts at a few other regionals and am making a bid comparison for the month of May.
I can tell you, the guy that said it goes on everywhere else is full of it. Just from eyeballing it, we have the worst quality of life lines out there. These are the facts. The flow might happen, but these are the facts of life.
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