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Old 06-18-2024, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by e6bpilot
I flew over 180 one month last year, but it was with a week of vacation and some very lucky open time awards. I won't ever see a total like that again.
I really like the new LCO, GTO, LDO, etc... Chaos now really, really pays.
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Old 06-19-2024, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by 170Till5
Delta out of ATL is mostly 3-4 leg days.. still some 5 leg days out of there. Seen FA’s with 6 legs / day. We all get effed with too many leg days
IIRC, aren't the FAs limited to 4 legs a day per their work rules? Or did that change?
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Old 06-19-2024, 10:35 AM
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I haven't flown more than 3 legs in a day since May 5th. plenty of 2 and 3 leg days with some nice LCO to push the 2-day trip total near or over 20. 3 days of pay for 2 days of work is my kind of ratio.
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Old 06-19-2024, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by e6bpilot
Someone who is able to drop their entire line and fly only premium can maybe get 120-130 TFP and 18 days off, but that would be the exception and not the rule.
That's about right.

I can usually get most (occasionally all) of my board cleared, and try to replace it with as much premium as possible. These days, once you hit the cap, your chances of getting premium go down exponentially, so you have to make it count.

The trick is to get yourself just short of the cap, and then bid the highest paying premium trip that'll put you over, which will be between 135 and 140ish tfp in 12 or 13 days.

Clearing the board is, by far, the hardest part.
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Old 06-19-2024, 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by SlipKid
That's about right.

I can usually get most (occasionally all) of my board cleared, and try to replace it with as much premium as possible. These days, once you hit the cap, your chances of getting premium go down exponentially, so you have to make it count.

The trick is to get yourself just short of the cap, and then bid the highest paying premium trip that'll put you over, which will be between 135 and 140ish tfp in 12 or 13 days.

Clearing the board is, by far, the hardest part.
Slip are you left or right seat?
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Old 06-19-2024, 12:40 PM
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Slip are you left or right seat?
Left seat, pretty senior.
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Old 06-19-2024, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by RJSAviator76
I really like the new LCO, GTO, LDO, etc... Chaos now really, really pays.
i wonder how it will look this fall barring any storms etc?
the goal of LCO et al was to make the company stop messing with us not for us to make more $.
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Originally Posted by SlipKid
That's about right.

I can usually get most (occasionally all) of my board cleared, and try to replace it with as much premium as possible. These days, once you hit the cap, your chances of getting premium go down exponentially, so you have to make it count.

The trick is to get yourself just short of the cap, and then bid the highest paying premium trip that'll put you over, which will be between 135 and 140ish tfp in 12 or 13 days.

Clearing the board is, by far, the hardest part.
Slip, did you move to MCO or are you still commuting? I've had some (way) more senior captains taking my reserve blocks and not ending up getting used. They've been doing pretty well.
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Old 06-19-2024, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by hoover
i wonder how it will look this fall barring any storms etc?
the goal of LCO et al was to make the company stop messing with us not for us to make more $.
I don’t think they’ll stop messing with us. They like their completion factor too much. The sodomizer will eventually be reprogrammed and catch up and we’ll keep playing cat and mouse.

On a premium two day, we caught a reroute that would have paid another 19 tfp. It disappeared quickly. I suspect a human actually looked at it and went whoa wait a minute.
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Old 06-19-2024, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Zard
I don’t think they’ll stop messing with us. They like their completion factor too much. The sodomizer will eventually be reprogrammed and catch up and we’ll keep playing cat and mouse.

On a premium two day, we caught a reroute that would have paid another 19 tfp. It disappeared quickly. I suspect a human actually looked at it and went whoa wait a minute.
it depends on how much in a bind they are. I had a 2 day pay 32 after all said and done.
I think the sodomizer still holds onto you once you get rerouted. They definitely haven't reprogrammed it yet but I suspect they will soon.
One of the podcasts said a guy got 67tfp extra for the month off of LCO et al.
That's gotta sting the company a bit
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