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Ok—What’s The New Base?

Old 12-15-2025 | 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by at6d
FO money can be close to junior captain money…but sick pay paid at captain wages is better! I’d rather be out on LTD at left seat rates.
I only like to work 8-10 days a month. As a cpt i make 10k more a month then as an FO. I have no desire to hustle as an FO to make cpt money.
sure an FO can do it if the comparable Cpt is me but a hustling cot can't be beat.
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Old 12-15-2025 | 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by hoover
I only like to work 8-10 days a month. As a cpt i make 10k more a month then as an FO. I have no desire to hustle as an FO to make cpt money.
sure an FO can do it if the comparable Cpt is me but a hustling cot can't be beat.
This guy is doing life right! Doesn’t even waste energy on making sentences look right! 😂 Focusing on things that actually matter is pretty awesome!
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Old 12-16-2025 | 05:40 AM
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The “Senior FO vs Junior CA” money discussion is a tale as old as time. I’m going on 3 years as a very junior Captain and in my opinion the most important question is: How long will you have to commute to RSV?
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Old 12-16-2025 | 06:42 AM
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A commuting 737+1 CA vs driving to work leading NB FO. I can see how they make more and drive to work. QOL is worth a lot. One day he might fly with his upgrade CA again. There are asshats in both seats though.
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Old 12-16-2025 | 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by TexasFlight
The “Senior FO vs Junior CA” money discussion is a tale as old as time. I’m going on 3 years as a very junior Captain and in my opinion the most important question is: How long will you have to commute to RSV?
No way I’d commute to rsv. I’m also very jr in a base that’s shrunk like 20% in the last year. I live in base so still driving to work and held my base for UPG. I get displaced and there shouldn’t be a 6 mo seat lock to downgrade if I choose that. I’d be around 70% in LAS/LAX so should be solid upper blanks or holding a line. Hopefully with AUS the displacement trend stops and hiring starts people getting back where they were.
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Old 12-16-2025 | 11:21 AM
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Commuting to reserve is a non starter, even for me. That's such a huge QOL hit that it makes it not worth it. Even with the new reserve tools, having a 15-16 day schedule that you can't move and have to commute in for RAP start and potentially sit in a hotel for unused days vs a senior FO schedule with all commutable trips and bells and whistles available to you is a large hill to overcome. I did it for a few months. It got old quick. Thankfully holding a line now, but I really feel for anyone displaced and commuting to reserve.
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Old 12-16-2025 | 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Liberty
This guy is doing life right! Doesn’t even waste energy on making sentences look right! 😂 Focusing on things that actually matter is pretty awesome!
completely agree. I wrote that drinking a bourbon sitting on my porch with my partner.
im pretty I even edited some of the more grevious spelling errors
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Old 12-16-2025 | 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by hoover
completely agree. I wrote that drinking a bourbon sitting on my porch with my partner.
im pretty I even edited some of the more grevious spelling errors
“my partner”. Sounds like an 80s cop show re-run.
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Old 12-16-2025 | 12:02 PM
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Old 12-16-2025 | 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Liberty
“my partner”. Sounds like an 80s cop show re-run.
id watch that.
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