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Class today of 25.
4 CLT
6 DCA
7 PHL bus
4 PHL 190
4 PHX

JetMonkey

Woohoo! First new hires for Phx in 9 years.

F2TH

Can anyone shed some light on typical monthly lines on the airbus/737 out of CLT? Do they have any CLT overnights on a trip? Do you bid monthly, or every 2 months? Thank you!

ghilis101

WHAT?!!! wow that's awesome. how did this not go to the westies? Arent there still a ton of AWA people trying to get back over to the west coast? This is great news for those who are afraid to apply to US thinking west coast was years away

VenetianFryCook

By definition, a CLT trip would not have CLT overnights. However, trips out of DCA, PHL, and PHX (on all fleets, except the PHX 757 which almost exclusively flies Hawaii) often have CLT overnights in them. Just depends on the trip.

No point in dwelling on 737 schedules since the airplane will be gone by August, and no more new hires will get it - we are rapidly displacing the remaining crews off the airplane.

A320 schedules in CLT vary widely. Day trips and all-nighters (CDOs, naps, stand-ups, split duty, whatever your prior employer called them) tend to be popular with some locals because they afford more time at home. Two-days are nice for that as well. Lots of three and four day trips (the three days seem to make it down to reserves a lot more than the four days or the shorter trips, for whatever reason) as well.

Trips can vary widely within that framework. No more than 5 legs a day on any fleet at US, and those would obviously be short-hauls. Plenty of mid-range hauls as well, and the bulk of the transcons and island flying are on the 320 as well. I've done Caribbean turns - though those usually go senior - as day trips. Some trips bounce in and out of CLT, others leave and never come back. Two three days I've done in the last year, very different trips but you get the idea:

First trip ... day one, one leg CLT-BOS, short layover. Day two, BOS-PHL-PHX, long layover. Day three, PHX-SNA-PHX-CLT. Started late afternoon, done around 9pm.

Second trip ... day one, early show CLT-PVD-CLT-MEM, long layover. Day two, MEM-CLT-DTW-CLT-SYR, 13 hour layover. Day 3, one leg SYR-CLT, done before 11AM.

There is so much variety, it's hard to call anything "typical". I've done a six-leg four day before (CLT-PUJ-PHL, layover, PHL-MBJ-PHL, layover, PHL-PHX, layover, PHX-CLT), but I've also done eight-leg two days.

VFC

adam28

Or bid the 190 and you can do 18 leg 4 days and only see 3 airports in 4 days.

Hueypilot

How are the AB trips out of DCA? Do reserves fly much out of there, and how long do most guys sit reserve?

Skubajet

True, but also true that guys are able to hold a line after only sitting reserve for 3-4 months on the 190. GREAT deal for those who commute..

The Drizzle

The trips in DCA are generally regarded as crappy but they aren't that bad. Many, many, many, many, many, day trips due to the shuttle and the Florida turns. The multi-day trips often have DCA acting as an outstation base with the trip being first out and last in on the last day but typically you only get one or the other. It's a small base so the flying is limited, primary lines just increased to 80 in a base with 140 pilots per position.

R reserves seem to fly anywhere from 20-50 hours a month in the last year or so. Summer months being the busiest, I had two months where I broke guarantee last year.

S reserves seem to fly far less, maybe 10-20 hours a month but there are always a few monthly outliers that fly more or even a few who make it the whole month flying nothing at all.

Time on reserve varies wildly and past performance is not an indicator of future results. For me, I sat one month of S then the remainder of my time on R for a total of 14 months on reserve and I'm now at least a secondary line holder going forward but I actually have a primary for april

PurpleTurtle

Monthly bids.

None of the pairings overnight in a city they originate out of... No CLT crews overnight in CLT. No PHL crews overnight in PHL, etc.

AB lines out of CLT go everywhere. There are 450 pilots (Capt and FO each). The lines go everywhere in the Continental US, Central America, Caribbean, Parts of South America, Canada, and a few other Island areas.

737 trips go to New England to Florida, back and forth all day and no where else (not exactly but pretty close). Regardless, the 737 is scheduled to be completely retired in Aug 2014.

Cheers