UPS - MIA Flying
03-18-2008, 12:33 PM
#11
Tri-tanic operator
Joined APC: Jul 2006
Position: Doggie
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Thanks guys for the replies.
Whereabouts in FL do you live? What is your current domicile and how is the commute?
Nice avatar by the way. That's Buffetts Hemisphere Dancer in mine. The airlines are actually a backup option for me if I can't get Buffett to hire me as his Copilot.
Whereabouts in FL do you live? What is your current domicile and how is the commute?
Nice avatar by the way. That's Buffetts Hemisphere Dancer in mine. The airlines are actually a backup option for me if I can't get Buffett to hire me as his Copilot.
03-18-2008, 07:12 PM
#12
Where's my Mai Tai?
Joined APC: Aug 2006
Position: fins to the left, fins to the right
Posts: 1,754
.I met one of JB's pilot in TPA one day. Good luck winning that lottery.
03-20-2008, 04:54 PM
#13
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2006
Position: I was acquired, Not Hired
Posts: 1,784
Like Swedish was saying, I also live in Tampa and commute to ANC:
St Pete Airport from my house: 19 miles
ANC Airport from my house: 3900 miles
I only have a year's seniority with UPS and know there are individuals senior to me that would also like to bid Miami, but are based elsewhere.
If I did bid into MIA I would likely hold a line that would start at 9pm in MIA and fly 2-3 legs a night, sit a sort somewhere, and then return to MIA at 630am. This would entail commuting from Tampa to Mia in the afternoon and then return home before lunch just to commute back down that afternoon or get a crashpad in Miami and spend 14-16 nights a month down there.
I have driven the drive and it really isn't that bad. 292 miles from my front door to the passenger terminal takes me about 4 1/2 hrs on the road. However, doing it 5 days a week, is like chewing on tin foil.
Even though I'm based in ANC, I only spend 2-4 nights a month up there and was very fortunate to be a line holder from day 1.
PIE flying is senior and it would be 5-7 years before I could bid that. One could almost guess that in 5-7 years in ANC, I would be approaching single digit seniority as an F/O...but that's just a guess with wishful thinking attached to it.
Good Luck,
FF
St Pete Airport from my house: 19 miles
ANC Airport from my house: 3900 miles
I only have a year's seniority with UPS and know there are individuals senior to me that would also like to bid Miami, but are based elsewhere.
If I did bid into MIA I would likely hold a line that would start at 9pm in MIA and fly 2-3 legs a night, sit a sort somewhere, and then return to MIA at 630am. This would entail commuting from Tampa to Mia in the afternoon and then return home before lunch just to commute back down that afternoon or get a crashpad in Miami and spend 14-16 nights a month down there.
I have driven the drive and it really isn't that bad. 292 miles from my front door to the passenger terminal takes me about 4 1/2 hrs on the road. However, doing it 5 days a week, is like chewing on tin foil.
Even though I'm based in ANC, I only spend 2-4 nights a month up there and was very fortunate to be a line holder from day 1.
PIE flying is senior and it would be 5-7 years before I could bid that. One could almost guess that in 5-7 years in ANC, I would be approaching single digit seniority as an F/O...but that's just a guess with wishful thinking attached to it.
Good Luck,
FF
03-20-2008, 09:17 PM
#14
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,333
So he finally quit and now flies for a fractional company; he said life is much better now - so maybe flying for JB is not that good of a lottery win after all, huh?
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