Average time to upgrade at Spirit?
03-15-2019, 08:16 AM
#21
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Don't forget after flying boxes on the backside of the clock most of your career you get to keel over when you retire. Can't take all that extra money with you.
03-15-2019, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by YourMom
Don't forget after flying boxes on the backside of the clock most of your career you get to keel over when you retire. Can't take all that extra money with you.
03-15-2019, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by YourMom
Don't forget after flying boxes on the backside of the clock most of your career you get to keel over when you retire. Can't take all that extra money with you.
03-16-2019, 03:36 AM
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Originally Posted by YourMom
Don't forget after flying boxes on the backside of the clock most of your career you get to keel over when you retire. Can't take all that extra money with you.
Originally Posted by Thrust Hold
That’s a common misconception. I’ll have to say that I’ve been pleasantly surprised how easy it is to avoid the night flying. Last year (yr 2 on property) I flew 349 (Night) and 331 (Daytime) Block hours. My typical pairing is one leg, 24-36 hour layover and then one leg home.
Sorry for thread drift. Back to original programming...
03-16-2019, 05:02 AM
#25
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Looks like a lot of night to me. https://youtu.be/JZ41PAFe1Bw
Some daytime in there when the sun comes up.
Some daytime in there when the sun comes up.
03-16-2019, 07:23 AM
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Do the same video in Vegas and FLL from 2200-0000.
03-17-2019, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Thrust Hold
That’s a common misconception. I’ll have to say that I’ve been pleasantly surprised how easy it is to avoid the night flying. Last year (yr 2 on property) I flew 349 (Night) and 331 (Daytime) Block hours. My typical pairing is one leg, 24-36 hour layover and then one leg home.
Originally Posted by YourMom
Don't forget after flying boxes on the backside of the clock most of your career you get to keel over when you retire. Can't take all that extra money with you.
03-17-2019, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot
Lots of 4-5 year captains at delta on the 80 and 717. LCCs don’t have a time to upgrade advantage at this time.
Airbus/737 captain at AA is 5 years in LGA, PHL, DCA and LAX. MIA is around 6.
Pretty sure United is 3-4 years as well.
03-17-2019, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Thrust Hold
That’s a common misconception. I’ll have to say that I’ve been pleasantly surprised how easy it is to avoid the night flying. Last year (yr 2 on property) I flew 349 (Night) and 331 (Daytime) Block hours. My typical pairing is one leg, 24-36 hour layover and then one leg home.
03-18-2019, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by propilot
How/ why are you blocking so much? In 6.5 years I’ve blocked roughly 1950 hours. WTH man...
Simply put......I Hustle.
I’m making at Year 2/3 what you’ve indicated you made at years 6/7. To each his own. We’ve all got our reasons for flying the schedules we prefer.
It’s a beautiful thing that we’re both allowed the schedule freedom and flexibility to either fly as little as possible or as much as we’d like to.
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