Spirit of NKS
08-26-2015 | 07:15 AM
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Quick question for current NK pilots, could you provide some bullet point answers regarding your QOL?
-Hard line or PBS
-Ballpark avg days off/credit
-commuter policy?
-quality of overnight hotels, Howard Johnson or SPG?
-scheduling issues? ie, JM's, EX's "fly it, grieve it later" attitude??
-support/culture in CP's office?
Thanks for taking the time...
-Hard line or PBS
-Ballpark avg days off/credit
-commuter policy?
-quality of overnight hotels, Howard Johnson or SPG?
-scheduling issues? ie, JM's, EX's "fly it, grieve it later" attitude??
-support/culture in CP's office?
Thanks for taking the time...
Hard Line.
17-19 days off, 85-95 hours credit
Excellent commuter policy, two flights. N/A for me.
Layover hotels are excellent, not long enough.
No sked issues. Junior Man if you want it, I've had no problem with skeds.
Really enjoy the culture, never had an issue with the CP. I know them, great people, but my overriding philosophy is to not get hassled, so I follow the rules, don't do anything dumb, dangerous, or different and I've never had a problem.
I've been here 2+ years, I get transition conflicts, usually my top 10 choices for bid, and am sitting in the top 1/4 in base. It's been a great ride so far.
08-26-2015 | 09:49 AM
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Let me add, because everyone's experience is a little different.
Hard Line.
17-19 days off, 85-95 hours credit
Excellent commuter policy, two flights. N/A for me.
Layover hotels are excellent, not long enough.
No sked issues. Junior Man if you want it, I've had no problem with skeds.
Really enjoy the culture, never had an issue with the CP. I know them, great people, but my overriding philosophy is to not get hassled, so I follow the rules, don't do anything dumb, dangerous, or different and I've never had a problem.
I've been here 2+ years, I get transition conflicts, usually my top 10 choices for bid, and am sitting in the top 1/4 in base. It's been a great ride so far.
Hard Line.
17-19 days off, 85-95 hours credit
Excellent commuter policy, two flights. N/A for me.
Layover hotels are excellent, not long enough.
No sked issues. Junior Man if you want it, I've had no problem with skeds.
Really enjoy the culture, never had an issue with the CP. I know them, great people, but my overriding philosophy is to not get hassled, so I follow the rules, don't do anything dumb, dangerous, or different and I've never had a problem.
I've been here 2+ years, I get transition conflicts, usually my top 10 choices for bid, and am sitting in the top 1/4 in base. It's been a great ride so far.
Thats over 6 hours / day in a 31 day month. You must be getting a heck of a transition monthly, or you're bidding from a different package than I am.
08-26-2015 | 09:59 AM
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Ya I am no where near that for an average. 2.5 yrs LAS base
08-26-2015 | 10:12 AM
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If you don't live in base, you really can't make money, It's just the way the pairings (min day/ trip averaging) are built. Precisely why I will never understand why guys here have such a Hard-on for 150% open time pick up. Our energy should be spent on making a solid hourly rate, with a DC plan so we can all make good money on 72 hours.
08-26-2015 | 10:21 AM
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If you don't live in base, you can't make money here. It's just the way the pairings (min day/ trip averaging) are built. Precisely why I will never understand why guys here have such a Hard-on for 150% open time pick up, our energy should be spent on making a solid hourly rate, so we can all make good money on 72 hours, not premium pay so we can spend our days on FLICA Waitig for a trip
If I were a manager and read Lobaeux's post, I'd think you were getting a pretty good deal.
08-26-2015 | 10:23 AM
A religion of "peas"!
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Does anyone have the key to cracking the open time code. I'm not senior enough to get a good line in FLL. Nor senior enough to modify it in initial open time. After months of disappointment in open time I changed from bidding on my iPad to using a pc both had hi speed internet connection. Was in the waiting room and started hitting the keys at 12 noon. Final result, 13 requests, hours later 13 denials. What am I doing wrong?
08-26-2015 | 10:33 AM
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Standard FLL bidding. It very much helps to live in base.
08-26-2015 | 11:11 AM
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Just get "FlicaFlac" from one of the DFW or LAS guys, it's great. You pick what days you want, min acceptable credit on those dates, preferred destinations, and FlicaFlac automatically snags whatever fits those parameters. If you aren't doing Daily Opentime from your swimming pool, you definitely aren't doing it right.
08-26-2015 | 11:46 AM
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FlicaFlakka is what its called. Buy it on the corner of 84 and US 1 at the pool is what he meant.
08-26-2015 | 12:12 PM
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Pretty good considering the FLL avg line credit has been setting around 74 hours.
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