Southwest ETOPS certification
02-06-2019, 07:45 AM
#81
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Joined APC: Jun 2016
Position: Not an RJ driver anymore
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Originally Posted by sMFer
Ooohhhhhhh.....hotel bashing. Some serious Internet cred displayed! Man, you must be at mainline!
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02-06-2019, 01:58 PM
#82
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Joined APC: Nov 2012
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Originally Posted by THEKERNALKLINK
Nothing quite like sitting around a hotel room for 2 days straight for $2/hr... maybe you can pick the bed bugs out of the mattress and invent a new delicacy?
That must be way better than making 500k/yr to fly a 7-3 12-14 days per month.
BUT, your airplane is bigger than mine, I'll give you that much.
That must be way better than making 500k/yr to fly a 7-3 12-14 days per month.
BUT, your airplane is bigger than mine, I'll give you that much.
02-07-2019, 07:41 AM
#83
On Reserve
Joined APC: May 2013
Position: Major Airline
Posts: 20
Originally Posted by THEKERNALKLINK
Nothing quite like sitting around a hotel room for 2 days straight for $2/hr... maybe you can pick the bed bugs out of the mattress and invent a new delicacy?
That must be way better than making 500k/yr to fly a 7-3 12-14 days per month.
BUT, your airplane is bigger than mine, I'll give you that much.
That must be way better than making 500k/yr to fly a 7-3 12-14 days per month.
BUT, your airplane is bigger than mine, I'll give you that much.
The ACMI lifestyle is for a small segment of the pilot population. I'm glad there are people hungry for the adventure of ACMI but there definitely is a 3 year breaking point. At 3 years you either love it, or hate it.
02-07-2019, 10:08 AM
#84
At your mom's house
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: cpt 737
Posts: 2,665
I agree. I did ACMI for almost 9 yrs. Two weeks on two weeks off. I like it and thought I'd wouldn't like the airline schedule but after a yr I was able to start getting blocks of time off in a row. Up to 10 days sometimes and now being gone for a 4 day seems brutal.
The pace sure is quicker. No more sitting in hotels for days but then again there's no more sitting in hotels for days when I could be home instead.
To each their own
The pace sure is quicker. No more sitting in hotels for days but then again there's no more sitting in hotels for days when I could be home instead.
To each their own
02-07-2019, 06:29 PM
#86
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Joined APC: Aug 2017
Posts: 533
Originally Posted by Setopbug
I hope you guys enjoy the new flying. Hawaii is awesome.
Thank you. Our home away from home is Kona. Can’t wait to get some overnights there. Love that city.
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02-11-2019, 05:13 AM
#87
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Position: 175 CA
Posts: 1,544
Originally Posted by Proximity
It was mostly a joke. I didn't know any hotel info had been disseminated to the masses and I read everything they send out. I'm going to very closely watch the LAX domicile and if the seniority picture is right for me I'll bid it.
Here are my actual HI flying concerns, it's such a big focus that other stuff is being neglected. We're pulling out of MEX, how can we not make that work? Why can't we take foreign currency yet? Why have so many of our competitors been able to find Canada yet we can't. Why can't we track bags properly? When are we going to fix our internet? These are all things I never hear about, yet the company pushes out plenty of HI news.
Here are my actual HI flying concerns, it's such a big focus that other stuff is being neglected. We're pulling out of MEX, how can we not make that work? Why can't we take foreign currency yet? Why have so many of our competitors been able to find Canada yet we can't. Why can't we track bags properly? When are we going to fix our internet? These are all things I never hear about, yet the company pushes out plenty of HI news.
02-11-2019, 08:40 AM
#88
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Position: 737 FO
Posts: 953
Originally Posted by sMFer
Thank you. Our home away from home is Kona. Can’t wait to get some overnights there. Love that city.
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02-11-2019, 09:21 AM
#89
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Posts: 613
Originally Posted by Squallrider
The Mexican government is heavily subsidizing their own carriers out of mex, southwest can’t compete at that price point so withdrawing service
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