Originally Posted by ClncClarence

No argument here. It truly is a different job when you don’t commute. Schedule flexibility goes out the window when you commute. Gotta be happy with where you live, though. Glad you found your balance and that it works for you and your family.

Originally Posted by Stan446

Love your new job so much you just have to post here. Too late since you tossed that FX seniority num.

Originally Posted by Stan446

Love your new job so much you just have to post here. Too late since you tossed that FX seniority num.

Originally Posted by Finessed

Dat “num” is becoming more worthless by the hour. This dumpster fire ran by clowns will continue to shrink as Amazon continues to slaughter this entire scrub operation. You got Amazon drivers who can’t spell their first name but can deliver a package to a location without being stolen and on time. Can’t say the same for this dumpster fire operation!

Sounds like it’s “too late” for you. This place sucks!

Originally Posted by ClncClarence

Good grief, give it a rest Stan. Enough with the broken record replies.

wrx asked for some advice and you can’t even deal with other posters giving their honest opinion because it differs from yours. Grow up.

I see you posted in the Delta, Frontier, and Spirit forums this week. Looking for a change? I get you’re still salty about the NO vote but I’m sure you’ll be fine.

Originally Posted by bluespoon

Yea management won’t be suggesting you fly for PSA unless bad things are coming. Tough call, they say you want to be as far up the seniority in times of economic downturns but this maybe different. I guess it comes down to where you’d rather be stuck.

Originally Posted by sailingfun

Maybe management is laying the foundation for contract negotiations.

Originally Posted by Globemaster2827

It is significantly different... My father was a check airman at AA and stayed on the MD80 back in the day because he enjoyed working on the line and in the school house as a check aiman. As a result, he ended up being a very senior MD80 Captain. What trips did he love to fly back in the day? The 6:30 AM departure out of DFW to places like SEA and POR because they were out and backs that broke for block hours. So let's break this down... We lived in Flower Mound and he'd have to sign in an hour prior... 5:30 AM. But he'd have to be there early like all of us so now it's 5AM. But he'd have to catch the tram from employee parking and get through security to sign in so now we're talking 4:30 AM. 30 minutes to drive into work? 4AM. 45 minutes to wake up and get out of the house? 3:15 AM... So 3:15 AM wake up call to Block out at 6:30 AM, block 3:45 hours to SEA is 10:15Am , an hour and a half to turn... 11:45 AM Dallas time. 3:30 back. 3:15 in the afternoon. 30 minutes for everyone to get off the jet. 3:45. 30 minutes to get to the car. 4:15. Rush hour traffic home is 45 minutes... 5PM. So 14 hours after his wake up at 3 AM he's walking back through the door of our house! He ended up with terminal cancer at young age... So the health argument of us hub turning and flying all night? Not a great argument with me especially since my Dad got the joy of flying nights AND days all in one at AA.

As for me? 757 CA out of MEM where I live. I'm very junior and rarely hub turn. In March I had 0 hours of leveling for the month. Generally when I fly it's a weekend layover that I cherry pick out of secondary at the beginning of the month. My 18 hour of pay 3 day trip looks like MEM-SAV on Saturday AM. 4AM departure to SAV. I'm in a room and asleep by 5:45 Central time. I leave on Monday around 8PM Central time and am at my house at around 11:45 PM. Then I sit reserve the rest of the month and don't get used much because I have so much leveling for my trip I flew. In May I had to actually find some flying with landings so that I wouldn't have to go back to the sim for landings... Flying a 757.

Being at FedEx is what you make of it. What my Dad did at AA looks like pure torture to me. For all I know it isn't even legal anymore, but I also know that I have no desire to his old job either especially considering that houses in Flower Mound cost 3 to 4 times what my house in Arlington TN costs. I'd have to move out 45 minutes to an hour away to afford a house that's not as nice as mine.
Who knows... Maybe one day FedEx completely collapses and I end up being forced into getting a job at a legacy, but I'm very happy with the job I have. FedEx careers are worth fighting for.

Originally Posted by Easyflier301

Good post, and sorry about your dad. It sounds like the CKA job is the big difference (that is way more work at any airline). Not sure how it was in the 90's or early 2000s, but if your dad was bidding today with top 5% NB status at AA and living in base, he would be bidding those same day turns and giving them all away every month via pilot to pilot trading to those wanting to pick up a little extra cash for a single day of work. Then he would set very specific parameters for trips he was wiling to get called for premium or make up (sign in after 8am, for example, and return via deadhead before 4pm on certain days of the week, or even 1 and 1 out and back 2 day trips that sign in at noon and then get home by 11am on the second day) and wait to get called for something he wants to do at straight or 1.5 pay. Very lucrative and nearly all top 10% CA and FO do it who live in base, and its far from torture.

Living the reserve life in base at any cargo/legacy is the dream for those who prefer staying home and not working. AA has quite different reserve rules than DAL/UA and reserve often goes senior because of it. Nuff said on that. Sounds like you have a great gig going there in MEM.

Originally Posted by Anthrax

Yep, and every time some blowhard fdx pilot gets on here bragging about how great he has it, management sees this as a reason to negotiate away our QOL work rules.

keep it up, dummies.