Considering SWA, have questions
01-10-2023, 02:32 AM
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Considering SWA, have questions
Obviously living in base is the desire, and to that end, I would like to end up in Orlando. What does the scheduling here look like? Average days away from home each month? Length of trips? Time to get Orlando? Do you guys do turns? I bake my home time. Thanks.
01-10-2023, 07:27 AM
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MCO is stupid senior at SWA, especially for captains. Your advancement both in schedule quality and upgrade will be greatly stunted. Also…..this place is getting more and more royally effed up. Just food for thought.
01-10-2023, 08:20 AM
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01-10-2023, 08:50 AM
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I consider AM trips radioactive and absolutely will not do them because most of them report between 0400 and 0430 local time. That means, living in base, I'd have to get up between 0200 and 0230 local time. I dont care how much of a morning person you are, that's way outside the bonds of being a "morning person."
If you don't live in base, you gotta commute in the night before for an AM trip, and then are able to wake up maybe half an hour later in the am.
I forget the trip length percentage mix required by the contract, but essentially, until you're very senior, your awarded line will be three-day trips with some four-day trips on occasion (and lots of four-days when you're junior). It's possible to get lines with some two-days and turns in them as you get more senior.
01-10-2023, 09:41 AM
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Turns, yes. But, out of, say, 450 lines in a base, you're looking at less than 10 all turn "PM" lines. There are usually about the same number of "AM" turn lines. Some months there are zero AM turn lines. Some months there are zero PM turn lines.
I consider AM trips radioactive and absolutely will not do them because most of them report between 0400 and 0430 local time. That means, living in base, I'd have to get up between 0200 and 0230 local time. I dont care how much of a morning person you are, that's way outside the bonds of being a "morning person."
If you don't live in base, you gotta commute in the night before for an AM trip, and then are able to wake up maybe half an hour later in the am.
I forget the trip length percentage mix required by the contract, but essentially, until you're very senior, your awarded line will be three-day trips with some four-day trips on occasion (and lots of four-days when you're junior). It's possible to get lines with some two-days and turns in them as you get more senior.
I consider AM trips radioactive and absolutely will not do them because most of them report between 0400 and 0430 local time. That means, living in base, I'd have to get up between 0200 and 0230 local time. I dont care how much of a morning person you are, that's way outside the bonds of being a "morning person."
If you don't live in base, you gotta commute in the night before for an AM trip, and then are able to wake up maybe half an hour later in the am.
I forget the trip length percentage mix required by the contract, but essentially, until you're very senior, your awarded line will be three-day trips with some four-day trips on occasion (and lots of four-days when you're junior). It's possible to get lines with some two-days and turns in them as you get more senior.
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