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12-14-2020, 02:53 PM
#741
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
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This is not at all true. ATL is a very hard commute. It's a top 5 hardest according to seat availability. If you don't book the JS exactly 20 days and 23 hours and 59 minutes and 59 seconds ahead of time, you're not getting on.. I did it for @3 years and finally caved and moved..
12-14-2020, 03:00 PM
#742
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Joined APC: Jun 2018
Position: 757 CA
Posts: 615
Some folks background checks take longer than others. Therefore, results may very on CJO. Pass the Interview w/ a clean background = got the job. They've been burned in the past, so CJO is now tied to background check completion.
12-14-2020, 03:00 PM
#743
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Joined APC: Jul 2012
Position: 767 FO
Posts: 281
That’s a tough question to answer since most have experience with only one city and the rest is hearsay. As has been mentioned, guys think ATL is bad and 3/4 of us who have chimed in disagree.
that being said I hear JAX and the FL panhandle can be tough.
that being said I hear JAX and the FL panhandle can be tough.
12-15-2020, 07:23 AM
#744
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Midfield downwind
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Mobile (BFM) certainly has to be one, given all the Gulf Coast and Panhandle residents. Fortunately there's an A300 on that route, but I routinely see all 6 jumpseats in back full and sometimes all 8 on the airplane full.
If MEM-BFM had a 75 or 76 put on it, that would make the commute substantially tougher.
If MEM-BFM had a 75 or 76 put on it, that would make the commute substantially tougher.
12-15-2020, 05:41 PM
#745
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Joined APC: Apr 2015
Posts: 299
Also makes a difference if you are on the 75/76 etc.. and commuting 4 times each way a month vs the 777 when you go once or twice a month.
12-15-2020, 05:56 PM
#746
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Joined APC: Jul 2012
Position: 767 FO
Posts: 281
Well, my bid closes on the second day and I don’t fly the 777, so... You’re right it isn’t as easy from driving from Collierville, but as commuting goes it’s pretty close.
Again, it all resides in your expectations. Are there places where you can get a seat every time like ROA? Sure, but you can’t drive from there and there ain’t a major flying 8 (non COVID) one-hour direct flights a day. When you do hold double deadheads there’s a nonstop to almost everywhere we have a deadhead.
now if your goal is to sit reserve and maximize the $$:time at work ratio then we’re having a different discussion. But for a guy who flies his awarded line, it can be much worse.
Again, it all resides in your expectations. Are there places where you can get a seat every time like ROA? Sure, but you can’t drive from there and there ain’t a major flying 8 (non COVID) one-hour direct flights a day. When you do hold double deadheads there’s a nonstop to almost everywhere we have a deadhead.
now if your goal is to sit reserve and maximize the $$:time at work ratio then we’re having a different discussion. But for a guy who flies his awarded line, it can be much worse.
12-16-2020, 07:31 AM
#747
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Joined APC: Feb 2018
Position: MD-11/C-17
Posts: 268
Just one (relatively junior) fellas opinion here but unless you’re moving to a base (plenty of valid reasons) I would not choose where to live based on the availability of FedEx jumpseats. While it’s certainly helpful to have them, there deadhead opportunities are just too plentiful to let that be a driving factor. Live where you WANT to live and before you know it you’ll be on revenue tickets to and from work.
12-18-2020, 12:12 PM
#749
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Joined APC: May 2006
Position: I'm On a Boat
Posts: 218
CHS is a tough commute. Inbound AM flight from MEM that turns and goes out basically empty that morning so no night flight. The drive to SAV or CAE is two hours with a fair amount of FDX people vying for that jumpseat.
No direct flights to MEM anymore on the passenger carriers and you will be last in line behind the probably 200 plus local Delta and American pilots for a jumpseat through CLT or the ATL plus the tourist traffic.
Basically you want to be senior enough to have some deviation bank. One of several reasons why there are a lot of relatively senior 777 FOs in CHS.
No direct flights to MEM anymore on the passenger carriers and you will be last in line behind the probably 200 plus local Delta and American pilots for a jumpseat through CLT or the ATL plus the tourist traffic.
Basically you want to be senior enough to have some deviation bank. One of several reasons why there are a lot of relatively senior 777 FOs in CHS.
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