marcal

Connecticut and Eastern PA have lots of pilots. Allentown in PA or Danbury are in Conn. They have lower costs of living and lower taxes than surrounding NYC suburbs but come with 1:30-2:30 drives in and around rush hour and across many bridges, etc.

Long Island is much more expensive and higher taxes but much more convenient to LGA/JFK and without the long drive. There seem to be some pilots in the Port Jefferson area.

However, NYC is by far the worst place in the world and you wouldn't ever want to come here. Stay away you've been warned!

RyanP

Yes, It's called Queens, specifically Jackson Heights and Kew Gardens, hundreds of pilots and haggered FA's walking down the streets everywhere. Literally. Golf carts are replaced with honking angry beat up taxis and people that may appear to want to stab you though.

Best family areas "in the city" are in certain areas of Brooklyn like Park Slope, Cobble hill, Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg etc or in Manhattan: Upper West side, Upper East side or West village. Of course all those places listed are incredibly expensive though. Astoria has some decent spots too.

I don't know about out in the other further out areas. I have only lived in Manhattan area with no car and using the subway and bus to get to LGA/JFK. I absolutely loved it there being single. Think it would suck with a family though. Would never want my kids growing up in that environment. Rent is just too insane though and housing purchase prices are pretty much out of reach these days. Not really worth it long term if you ever plan to retire or save any money unless your spouse makes 150K plus as well.

WhatNow

[QUOTE=zippinbye;2091503]What? Don't ask me to quote the PWA, because I am too lazy to look it up at the moment. But the only CP pilot involvement I have ever had with deviations between Asia and the U.S. was to force me onto a flight showing no availability (special personal circumstance). You also need CP or CS intervention to change a back-end deviation after booking it, but the pilot has total control to change with front end. Of course with the caveat of seat availability. I always get "C" when booking in Company Business myself. On the rare occasions it has not been available, I choose another city pair, my original DH, or the Radisson for a try another day. It's a bit different using the XCM menu to book the way home, but if availability showed under the Company Business field, you'll get "C" on the back end too. There's no time limit for booking the front end. Check you PBS award, book the deviation.

This last part is incorrect. You can only book 14 days in advance. The company booking will allow a earlier booking but it's not legal. Company is supposedly doing a audit because this is being abused. Let's not screw up a good deal and have the company force us to make all bookings through the CPSC.
Contract reference: A pilot who utilizes an off-rotation deadhead under Section 8 E. 8. may attempt his booking at any time within 14 days of the report of his rotation.

zippinbye

[QUOTE=WhatNow;2091594]Apologies for my earlier misleading statement in that regard. Thanks for the correction. I'm sure I unwittingly violated that provision. But as you say, the system allows it. I will try to redeem myself! In any case, my feeling is that 14 days is usually enough to get a comfy seat. If not, select another hub/gateway city and chances are something will work out.

Piklepausepull

Ironman? I got yer' ironman right here!

Landing SIN 0100 25 dec.....home in S. ATL 1600 25 dec....

Thank GOD for business class lie flat seats, top deck 747!

captkdobbs

AWESOME!!! Now that is working to get home for Christmas!

flyallnite

Back end deviations can be booked in Icrew, in business, once the rotation begins. Front-end deviations cannot be booked in business class without speaking with a human. The process I described is exactly what you need to do; book in coach (business will be grayed out) copy down the PNR, and have CS upgrade you (seats must be available). Also, importantly, you are on your own WRT customs inbound. Reference the FOM. In Narita, that means no shore pass, you clear customs and get a visa like everyone else. And hotel transportation is on you, but in NRT that's not an issue. It is an issue in CDG. Not on gen dec, can't ride crew bus from plane side. It's a hassle we shouldn't have to deal with. The company has the ability to add us to the gen dec digitally when we deviate given enough heads up, they just won't.

MikeF16

Any resolution on this? I should've said this earlier, but a call to ALPA scheduling might be helpful.

ColdUpHere

On my phone, when I log onto DeltaNet Flight Ops and then select iCrew, it kicks me back out to the Flight Ops log-in page instead of taking me to the iCrew log-in page.

I also tried iCrew from the Crew Resources page...same result.

It just started happening a couple of days ago. Any ideas? Anyone else seeing this?

scambo1

I crew mobile works best on my smartphone.