Originally Posted by Bluedriver

When I did live in base I preferred 2-3 day trips. Day trips with all the driving in traffic, parking, train/shuttle from parking to the airport, etc, it all felt like a 9-5 job, in the worst possible way.

Originally Posted by nuball5

Day trips go senior at JetBlue because it’s really your only consistent way of getting over 5 hours/day. It’s also makes every day an opportunity to fly past 1am triggering another ADG or getting extended pairing for something that happens during your turn. Something like that happens on day 1 of 3….nada.

Originally Posted by Bluedriver

When I did live in base I preferred 2-3 day trips. Day trips with all the driving in traffic, parking, train/shuttle from parking to the airport, etc, it all felt like a 9-5 job, in the worst possible way.

Originally Posted by SSlow

I hear you, and it definitely makes sense for some.

You also have to remember, and this is purely me being selfish, but we don't really have any cool and exotic instagram worthy layovers at NK like you do at B6. Same thing goes for soft time. For instance in FLL, unless you're senior most of the multi-day pairings aren't anything to get excited over: airport hotel layover in places like ATL/BWI/MYR with 2-4 legs per day, 10 hour "3 day" with a transcon redeye back to base, etc.

There's no resort layover in PUJ or any of the vacation destinations that we fly to outside of SJU, where we recently lost our oceanfront layover hotel. Hell we don't even have international layovers anymore except for GYE, which is incredibly dangerous for everyone (even the locals).

We gave away most of our long stay layovers in contract 2018 (currently at 18 hour long stay trigger).

I'm not complaining or saying that any of this is a must have (it's work I get it), but it is a nice perk to have every so often while doing multi day trips. So considering the above, myself and many others would prefer to stick with turns.

Originally Posted by Halon1211

LIM is coming back in early November, just had a one month pause. We also have SDQ…

Originally Posted by SSlow

SDQ is a redeye turn crewed from other domiciles right now...it comes and goes

LIM is supposedly coming back, but I wouldn't hold my breath with the P&W issues

Originally Posted by Excargodog

It all sort of depends on the individual commuter and what airport they are commuting from. The guy who lives an almost three hour drive (counting the employee bus from the parking lot) from the airport they commute from and then must commute two hours plus on one of the four flights a day between that airport and his actual base (Thank God not me, though I know an individual who does do that) is going to have a totally different perspective from the commuter who needs 35 minutes to get to their airport which has hourly commutes to their assigned base. One guy is losing AT LEAST six hours each way and quite possibly more than that depending on scheduling and isn’t going to be much interested in turns or one day trips. The other might be inclined to pick up one days, but even for him three or four day trips woukd be more convenient.

And yeah, I know, commuting is a choice, but in my base about 65% of the pilots ARE commuters. There is no good reason we can’t have a healthy mix of trips that people can use to bid schedules that work for them with adequate reserves or premium pay to cover the people who can’t cover their trips for whatever reason, no jump seat space, COVID, weather, or whatever.

Originally Posted by BananaHammock

shoot I live 35 minutes from my domicile and only bid 4 days to minimize time in the employee bus...