With MEM you hit the jackpot! You can fly Fedex to work.

In all seriousness, you should consider moving to a base at some point. If moving down the road is out of the question, I would keep pushing for UA or AA. Don’t mean to rain on your parade, but I can see you getting frustrated sooner than later, unless of course, you’re well off or your spouse has excellent income, and you’re planning on being a part-timer. Good luck cowboy!

Looks like a few routes got cut out of dfw (den, msp)

Seems to be a trend in the system, taking what was once day turns and incorporating them into multi day pairings.

I agree. If you can’t move to base you might as well (try) and work for an airline with better pay, retirement etc if you’re going to commute and be miserable, be miserable where you get paid more.


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How are the lines in DTW? Commutable? Good overnights?

DFW-MSP is seasonal. Ended mid Nov, starts again Apr. 22.

Since we have introduced PBS, lines are what you (and your seniority) make of them, so it’s more a function of whether your are able to be awarded pairings that are commutable.

As far a what constitutes a “good” overnight is pretty subjective. Long vs short hotel location, times of arrival and departure, effectiveness of transportation are all things that can make a layover in a desirable city better or worse. I flew with a guy the other day who bids for hotels with the “best gyms” and could care less what city they are in.

He's ripped, too.

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Can you fly 1000 hours in the first 9 months and then have the rest of the year off paid? Someone asked me that and I had no idea if it was possible or not especially with 117.