Junior Base?
03-04-2020, 06:17 AM
#12
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Originally Posted by HulkaBurger
No red eye flying at SWA.
This does make an interesting opportunity available in that if you commute East and fly PM pairings, it opens up late night commute home options for a lot of folks that normally would be stuck staying in base.
LAS flying trends west as do all SWA west bases. This was done years ago as a result of fatigue issues on AM east coast pairings originating from west coast bases. It is a heavy commuter base.
03-04-2020, 10:50 AM
#14
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
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Originally Posted by RJSAviator76
Now think about our overstaffing right now if the genius bar at the GO decided to fly redeyes from the West Coast going east... instantly not overstaffed anymore.
Or follow the JetBlue model and do redeye island turns? Leave BWI around 10pm. Fly down to Puerto Rico, turn at 2am, and have the airplane back in BWI in time for the morning push.
B6 fills up the airplanes doing that kind of stuff every night.
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03-04-2020, 11:03 AM
#15
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Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan
Or follow the JetBlue model and do redeye island turns? Leave BWI around 10pm. Fly down to Puerto Rico, turn at 2am, and have the airplane back in BWI in time for the morning push.
B6 fills up the airplanes doing that kind of stuff every night.
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B6 fills up the airplanes doing that kind of stuff every night.
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03-04-2020, 02:09 PM
#18
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Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
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Originally Posted by hoover
Planes have to have some down time for MX as well. I think we're flying the planes all we can now.
Yeah I always hear that excuse. We don't maintain all 700 airplanes every night.
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03-04-2020, 06:51 PM
#20
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Joined APC: Aug 2013
Position: Gear Puller
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Recently completed FO leadership training. Network planning came in and said red eyes are a great potential, but mainly to connect Hawaii with east coast. So red eye from Hawaii to CA, then connect with existing routes to east coast. Of course, potential to do more from there, but the immediate red eye flying will be Hawaii - CA.
