Kalitta 747 bidding...

[washout]

On Kalitta's website they have their daily flight schedules published.

My question (for Kalitta 747 pilots!) is, when the bids come out for pilots do you bid for specific lines of flying that contain where you will be laying over, number of hours in the line, etc.? Like...are there "high time" and "low time" lines, reserve lines, etc.? In essence, do you find out in advance where you are going and how many hours you can expect to fly in the next month?

Or do you just bid for days off and have no clue where (or how much) you will end up flying when you leave on the first day of your 17 like some other "nonskeds"?

I have searched this site for longer than my attention span allows, and I have not found the answer.

Thanks to anyone who can help out.

 

[Junkflyer]

Yes you bid for lines which are specific. There has been problems with not flying your line which happens frequently. There is a new head honcho in scheduling and he appears to be trying to improve things. The Feb lines are all mostly pretty low time averaging mid 50 hours from what I've seen.

 

[dojetdriver]

Is every line a 17/13 or is a senior guy able to hold more days off in a month?

 

[pin727]

Is kalitta planning to hire pilots anytime soon???

 

[embpic1]

Is every line a 17/13 or is a senior guy able to hold more days off in a month?

All lines are 17 on 13 or 14 off (30 or 31 days in month respectively).

As junkflyer said staying on your line doesn't happen very often. I have yet to complete a line as scheduled. Usually you start out on your line, but maybe a week into it it changes due to mx or other issues. When I bid for my line I only bid for my days off.

As far as future hiring goes, I heard that we will be hiring in the 1st quarter. Of course this could change. We are pretty well staffed right now as most of us are flying about 30-60 hours a month.

 

[iaflyer]

Is every line a 17/13 or is a senior guy able to hold more days off in a month?

This last bid period (Feb 07) there were some lines with up to 17 days off - about 16 out of 80 or so had more than 13 days off. Of course, they went senior.

We are wondering if that will continue next month - there is rumors that the DO discovered that we had more time off and wasn't happy.