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04-20-2023 | 12:01 PM
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Once you have some seniority are you able to bid for less hours? what’s the minimum hours you can drop down to per month? I currently can work from 70-100 easily based on schedule is this impossible at United?
04-20-2023 | 12:28 PM
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What you are contractually allowed to drop down to and what you CAN drop down to are completely different things. In theory I think the lowest is 50hrs....but in reality...dropping a single trip is difficult due to "no coverage" due to inflated reserve requirements.
04-20-2023 | 01:47 PM
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04-20-2023 | 02:47 PM
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They changed it to zero about 4-5 years ago, which is obviously not realistic given the barrel scheduling has us bent over. Best I've done is in the 30s via bad-day/worse-day, but no drops.
04-20-2023 | 02:49 PM
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With seniority you can tell PBS to build lower time lines (varies every month), and many do. That is the reason that junior pilots have to fly high time lines and pick up the slack. On the 737 my average is about 75 hours per month. In 2 years back on the plane I don’t think that I’ve ever been awarded more than 80. If I was junior life would be very different and I’d be flying 85-90 hr lines. We can drop to zero providing that there’s coverage, but there’s never coverage. You can trade similar trips around, but until you’re senior enough to bid productive turns that people want, flat out dropping a trip will be tough.
04-20-2023 | 03:25 PM
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With seniority you can tell PBS to build lower time lines (varies every month), and many do. That is the reason that junior pilots have to fly high time lines and pick up the slack. On the 737 my average is about 75 hours per month. In 2 years back on the plane I don’t think that I’ve ever been awarded more than 80. If I was junior life would be very different and I’d be flying 85-90 hr lines. We can drop to zero providing that there’s coverage, but there’s never coverage. You can trade similar trips around, but until you’re senior enough to bid productive turns that people want, flat out dropping a trip will be tough.
I won’t tell you to look at another airline but if I were you I’d think carefully about it.
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