I Quit SWA FB Group
11-20-2017, 04:51 AM
#41
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,460
Omg. This thread has left the rails.
Quit trying to justify your decisions. We work harder at SWA than guys at cargo carriers. It is a fact with numbers to prove it.
Our schedules here can be easy or they can be brutal, but they are, for the most part, either AM or PM usually dependent on your preference. There is something to be said for not getting your body clock jerked around. Anyone who has flown long (greater than 8-10 hour) legs in any airplane knows that.
FedEx and UPS guys easily cushion any blow to their fragile bodies by filling a mattress with money. You can do it at swa too but you will work a lot more for it.
Take a look at the schedules of our 400k plus club and let me know if that is how you want to live your life in your 50s and 60s.
Quit trying to justify your decisions. We work harder at SWA than guys at cargo carriers. It is a fact with numbers to prove it.
Our schedules here can be easy or they can be brutal, but they are, for the most part, either AM or PM usually dependent on your preference. There is something to be said for not getting your body clock jerked around. Anyone who has flown long (greater than 8-10 hour) legs in any airplane knows that.
FedEx and UPS guys easily cushion any blow to their fragile bodies by filling a mattress with money. You can do it at swa too but you will work a lot more for it.
Take a look at the schedules of our 400k plus club and let me know if that is how you want to live your life in your 50s and 60s.
11-20-2017, 05:02 AM
#42
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Joined APC: Jun 2015
Posts: 191
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You do realize that 50% of domestic flying at FDX is day time flying correct? I hear FDX on the west coast more than our SW boys during the afternoon. International is international no matter who you do it for. You can justify our 3 day 12 leg trips and say its easier but I'm going to have to say otherwise. Especially when the pay rate differs by 80k a year as an FO and over 100k as a capt.
We’ve been through this. Your numbers are off, we are on the TFP System.
I’ll gladly put my w2 year for year up against yours as well as days off per month.
When you’re ready to get serious and quit trolling, let us know.
Originally Posted by flyguy81
You do realize that 50% of domestic flying at FDX is day time flying correct? I hear FDX on the west coast more than our SW boys during the afternoon. International is international no matter who you do it for. You can justify our 3 day 12 leg trips and say its easier but I'm going to have to say otherwise. Especially when the pay rate differs by 80k a year as an FO and over 100k as a capt.
I’ll gladly put my w2 year for year up against yours as well as days off per month.
When you’re ready to get serious and quit trolling, let us know.
11-20-2017, 06:11 AM
#43
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,796
Originally Posted by e6bpilot
Take a look at the schedules of our 400k plus club and let me know if that is how you want to live your life in your 50s and 60s.
This. Whats the old axiom? Nobody ever died thinking “I wish I had spent more time at work..”
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11-20-2017, 05:38 PM
#44
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Joined APC: Jul 2007
Posts: 3,629
Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan
This. Whats the old axiom? Nobody ever died thinking “I wish I had spent more time at work..”
11-20-2017, 07:13 PM
#45
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Joined APC: Mar 2017
Posts: 459
Please, take the WB international. Did it for over a decade.
2 died on the plane, 3 died in the hotel, and a few more "lucky" ones died at home all before retirement.
I really doubt any of them died with a smile on their faces because of their admirable financial situation.
It is the most unhealthy flying you can do, period.
Besides, no one can see that wide body at night.
2 died on the plane, 3 died in the hotel, and a few more "lucky" ones died at home all before retirement.
I really doubt any of them died with a smile on their faces because of their admirable financial situation.
It is the most unhealthy flying you can do, period.
Besides, no one can see that wide body at night.
11-21-2017, 03:30 AM
#46
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Joined APC: May 2005
Posts: 1,273
Originally Posted by ANGFlight81
We’ve been through this. Your numbers are off, we are on the TFP System.
I’ll gladly put my w2 year for year up against yours as well as days off per month.
When you’re ready to get serious and quit trolling, let us know.
I've actually kept pretty accurate records of this since Nov 14.
B777 FO until 7/2016
B757 CA now.
From 11/2014 to present I averaged (per month):
CH: 90:28
Block: 35:24
TAFB: 244:01 (a little over 10 days per month away from home)
11-21-2017, 04:02 AM
#47
More Cowbell!!!
Joined APC: Nov 2011
Position: Spreading the LUV from the "Write" seat!!!
Posts: 344
Originally Posted by Sluggo_63
I'll bite...
I've actually kept pretty accurate records of this since Nov 14.
B777 FO until 7/2016
B757 CA now.
From 11/2014 to present I averaged (per month):
CH: 90:28
Block: 35:24
TAFB: 244:01 (a little over 10 days per month away from home)
I've actually kept pretty accurate records of this since Nov 14.
B777 FO until 7/2016
B757 CA now.
From 11/2014 to present I averaged (per month):
CH: 90:28
Block: 35:24
TAFB: 244:01 (a little over 10 days per month away from home)
TIA
11-21-2017, 04:41 AM
#48
Banned
Joined APC: Aug 2015
Posts: 155
Originally Posted by ROFF
Please, take the WB international. Did it for over a decade.
2 died on the plane, 3 died in the hotel, and a few more "lucky" ones died at home all before retirement.
I really doubt any of them died with a smile on their faces because of their admirable financial situation.
It is the most unhealthy flying you can do, period.
Besides, no one can see that wide body at night.
2 died on the plane, 3 died in the hotel, and a few more "lucky" ones died at home all before retirement.
I really doubt any of them died with a smile on their faces because of their admirable financial situation.
It is the most unhealthy flying you can do, period.
Besides, no one can see that wide body at night.
Did it for 25 years!
If you think it is glamorous then you haven’t done it!!!
11-21-2017, 05:15 AM
#49
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2015
Posts: 191
Originally Posted by Sluggo_63
I'll bite...
I've actually kept pretty accurate records of this since Nov 14.
B777 FO until 7/2016
B757 CA now.
From 11/2014 to present I averaged (per month):
CH: 90:28
Block: 35:24
TAFB: 244:01 (a little over 10 days per month away from home)
I've actually kept pretty accurate records of this since Nov 14.
B777 FO until 7/2016
B757 CA now.
From 11/2014 to present I averaged (per month):
CH: 90:28
Block: 35:24
TAFB: 244:01 (a little over 10 days per month away from home)
Wow, impressive. So based on this; everyday you worked at FedEx for the last 3 years you averaged a daily credit of 8.22! (Based on 11 days per month, your figure was “a little over 10” so I’m giving you a cushion).
I didn’t realize your credit was so high there...or did we have reserve days that we weren’t use on (and just not counting those because we were “at home”)?
11-21-2017, 09:32 AM
#50
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Joined APC: Sep 2011
Posts: 1,004
Originally Posted by ANGFlight81
Wow, impressive. So based on this; everyday you worked at FedEx for the last 3 years you averaged a daily credit of 8.22! (Based on 11 days per month, your figure was “a little over 10” so I’m giving you a cushion).
I didn’t realize your credit was so high there...or did we have reserve days that we weren’t use on (and just not counting those because we were “at home”)?
I didn’t realize your credit was so high there...or did we have reserve days that we weren’t use on (and just not counting those because we were “at home”)?
I worked 120 days this year, and averaged 101 tfp per month.
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