Vacancy/Reduction
10-21-2022, 05:01 AM
#21
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Joined APC: Mar 2016
Position: 320 Captain
Posts: 172
I'm bidding 34% in base and all my trips are two and one day pairings next month. 79 credit with a lousy 13 days off. I will be in my crashpad 5-6 days next month with three one day turns in a row. One day pairings are last in my bid group, and I'm still way to jr to get a four day. Most of my trips aren't commutable, but I'm lucky because I drive, even if its three hours. So yes, people are commuting to do day turns and pay for a pad or hotel.
I have personally seen it on a weekly basis. Friends on reserve are only flying 1, 2, and some 3 day trips. Our pilots will in fact be commuting to do turns. That's how the lines are being built. Also, October is a slow month. Not a lot of open time. Gonna get real ugly. That's fine though, just another shot in the foot of the company increasing attrition.
10-21-2022, 06:31 AM
#22
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Joined APC: Aug 2014
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10-21-2022, 06:37 AM
#23
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10-21-2022, 06:44 AM
#24
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I got everything off that I wanted and Thanksgiving. The reason I have so few days off is because three of my pairings end just before midnight, and are technically considered ending the next day.
10-21-2022, 12:16 PM
#26
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Joined APC: Apr 2018
Posts: 417
10-21-2022, 04:06 PM
#28
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Joined APC: Feb 2019
Position: baller, shot caller
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Apparently these guys think it's your fault the company has built in so many 1 and 2 day trips.
I have personally seen it on a weekly basis. Friends on reserve are only flying 1, 2, and some 3 day trips. Our pilots will in fact be commuting to do turns. That's how the lines are being built. Also, October is a slow month. Not a lot of open time. Gonna get real ugly. That's fine though, just another shot in the foot of the company increasing attrition.
I have personally seen it on a weekly basis. Friends on reserve are only flying 1, 2, and some 3 day trips. Our pilots will in fact be commuting to do turns. That's how the lines are being built. Also, October is a slow month. Not a lot of open time. Gonna get real ugly. That's fine though, just another shot in the foot of the company increasing attrition.
Just for context, there are hardly any day turns in CA open time for the remainder of October more than two days out from now. MCO has quite a few but outside of that FLL and DTW each have one (late PM turns), and LAS/ORD/DFW all have a grand total of zero day turns in open time. I'm sure they will lose a few pilots over this, but the sky is hardly falling as most seem to be quite okay picking them up.
Trust me I wish more people hated day turns as much as I hate a 15 hour layover in at the LGA Marriott on a four day will all short layovers.
Last edited by SSlow; 10-21-2022 at 04:19 PM.
10-21-2022, 07:53 PM
#29
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Joined APC: Nov 2017
Posts: 84
Yeah but that's reserve which is a whole different ball game. I'm sure they do get them on reserve when others call out sick, or they get the DH out to fly one leg back. That just comes with the territory of being on reserve though.
Just for context, there are hardly any day turns in CA open time for the remainder of October more than two days out from now. MCO has quite a few but outside of that FLL and DTW each have one (late PM turns), and LAS/ORD/DFW all have a grand total of zero day turns in open time. I'm sure they will lose a few pilots over this, but the sky is hardly falling as most seem to be quite okay picking them up.
Trust me I wish more people hated day turns as much as I hate a 15 hour layover in at the LGA Marriott on a four day will all short layovers.
Just for context, there are hardly any day turns in CA open time for the remainder of October more than two days out from now. MCO has quite a few but outside of that FLL and DTW each have one (late PM turns), and LAS/ORD/DFW all have a grand total of zero day turns in open time. I'm sure they will lose a few pilots over this, but the sky is hardly falling as most seem to be quite okay picking them up.
Trust me I wish more people hated day turns as much as I hate a 15 hour layover in at the LGA Marriott on a four day will all short layovers.
well I’m on captain reserve in FLL and I fly just about every day…. Lots of open time trips I have to cover and I’m R3
10-22-2022, 06:16 AM
#30
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