Prepare yourselves… 2023 AEs
03-27-2023, 09:06 AM
#1811
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Position: window seat
Posts: 12,544
03-27-2023, 09:24 AM
#1812
Leaves Biscoff crumbs
Joined APC: Jan 2020
Position: Blue Juice Taste Tester
Posts: 1,363
Yeah, taking our flying back from the regionals hasn't quite been as awesome as i thought it would be. Meanwhile i got a few buddies at OO sitting at home on reserve never getting called in because there's no flying and barely any OT to pick up
03-27-2023, 09:36 AM
#1813
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Position: window seat
Posts: 12,544
Mainline did it for eons with Shuttle flying and that was as easy going as it gets. Same gates, same frequencies, no panic pressure to leave early, very few pax or bag issues, good layovers, and you almost always kept the plane.
I'll take that kind of flying with the "burgs and villes" layovers all day long. But the constant panicked plane changes and 3-5 hour "sits" and 30 followed by 10 hour rests is what makes it tough.
That's not the nature of that kind of flying; its just how marketing chooses to build it.
03-27-2023, 10:38 AM
#1814
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2018
Posts: 3,237
Can't wait till they get hired at Delta and then complain about how you sold them down the river and stagnated their career earnings with no OT by taking back that RJ flying.
03-27-2023, 12:51 PM
#1815
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Joined APC: Jan 2011
Posts: 843
bring back all the flying in house!!
03-27-2023, 03:39 PM
#1816
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Joined APC: Jan 2016
Posts: 124
Back to the thread name. Who said that we're taking all the 717s out of the desert by the end of the year? BS on Skyhub? Or someone making this stuff up?
03-27-2023, 03:59 PM
#1817
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2014
Position: 737B
Posts: 377
Fleet captain
03-27-2023, 05:39 PM
#1818
Roll’n Thunder
Joined APC: Oct 2009
Position: Pilot
Posts: 3,835
The planes are scheduled for 55 minute turns in ATL. If your scheduled for a 55 minute turn there’s a good chance you’re keeping the plane. Any longer and it’s a swap. 80% of swaps are from one C gate to another C gate.
03-27-2023, 07:24 PM
#1819
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2022
Posts: 1,437
No matter what happens, no matter how far they make me walk to a new plane…..I am never in a rush. They can kiss my sweet ass. Rushing is what gets us in trouble.
I tell the FO to go do whatever they need to feel ready, and we will leave when we leave.
Don’t rush
I tell the FO to go do whatever they need to feel ready, and we will leave when we leave.
Don’t rush
03-27-2023, 07:32 PM
#1820
:-)
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 7,339
Junior on the 73n/320 is the worst there is, and the fatigue reports reflect that. Doing 4 legs a day on the 717 is a relief compared to every trip having a mid rotation redeye, multiple timezone swaps to min-rest, etc...
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