Shaggy1970

I am not sure how smart it is, that during negotiations we got guys coming on here and bragging about how little they work, how many days off they have in a given bid period, how much they are getting paid for the work that they don't do. How about showing a little SA folks.

contrails

No 'dog in the fight' in this thread here, but my line of thinking is, it doesn't matter how little a reserve has been called in recently if a million dollars of freight needs to be moved and there's nobody else to do it on time.

Spare tires on cars don't go 15,000 miles a year like the other tires. But when you need 'em, . . .

jungle

Nice sentiment, but do you understand that they have a complete statistical picture that has been sliced and diced a hundred ways?
Do you think any of this escapes their scrutiny? It doesn't matter what anyone says, they have more numbers on this than most of us can imagine.

FR8TFLYER

The company already knows this and if they don't I'm sure Andy Murphy will make a slide or 2 on it and give it to the company to use against us.

Shaggy1970

No $hit Sherlock. Just saying, this isn't the place to be gloating about this kind of crap.

Shaggy1970

I got to admit, this was pretty funny. Just so you know, Andy doesn't make slides that the EB doesn't ask for. Don't blame Andy, is all I am saying.

Husker4Life

I'm not sure it's gloating. There's so much anti-UPS rhetoric on this forum, it's hard not to sing praises to the few good aspects of this job.

To answer the original question:

I am one of the most junior ANC MD11 capts. I have held the last or second to last lines in my seat for the last year and a half. They are almost always VTO lines and there are usually pretty crappy for commuting. I've noticed that the bottom FO is almost always a VTO line. I think it's safe to say my schedule would closely align with a new hire's if they were assigned the MD11 in ANC. I think it's quite different on the 747 in ANC.

Anyway, in the last year, I have averaged 13.5 days away from home including commuting from the Midwest. My worst pay period was 18 days and my best was 2 days (vacation). This is out of a 28 day pay period. It is a challenge to say the least but it is manageable. It would be amazing if you chose to live in domicile.

jungle

Good post, the key to a happy life may well be living in domicile.

There is no doubt that pilots are getting more productivity squeezed out of them over time. Some may find this unpleasant, but it may be essential to their long term survival.

HotMamaPilot

Nice try, but the last turboprop driver that we hired was in 2005....and that was a girl (commutair, I believe). So, I think that you are gonna need 121 time or at least turbojet pic.

FR8TFLYER

121 experience unless you are female, minority or want to go into management, then C-172 time will probably work!