Regional Pilots - How many days off?

[flight-crew]

I'm interested in how many days off pilots at other Regional airlines get.

Could you please post your typical line with respect to days off and block hours per month. I'm interested in both the best lines and the crappy lines.

 

[LearLove]

At Allegheny it can vary between bases. Min day off is 10 all around line/resv.

In syr we get a max of 16 days off on the top lines down to 10 on the lower lines including resv/buildup. the lines are blocked/credited from 83 to 91 hours. Avg about 86 hours.

ABE which is closing in June mostly got screwed due to the shorter range flying they due. The LGA lines this month have like 14-off and 91 blocked.

Overall I'd say company wide your looking at 12.5 days per month and avg 90 hours of pay per month. Air Inc says that we avg 100 hours of pay/month but that went down with the twin towers. Before 911 you never had less than 115 to 120 hours on your pay sheet per month due to prem pay but thats hard to get now plus the pay sheets are done w/ a computer system now.

 

[BRA]

12.5 days off with average 86 hours pay. That sounds awesome to me. Colgan gets 13-15 days off, with like 60-70 hous bock time. Not for everyone, but this has been my average. You can never make extra money.

 

[BRA]

LearLove, may be people would fly our stuff more if i drew a huge cock and double D tits on the side of it? I have been laughing at that post for 2 days now.

 

[CF34-3B1]

ASA Min 10 days off

Average junior line 10-13 days off, low to mid 80s block time.

This month I do 3 on 4 off, 16 days off, 79hrs block.

Our line construction has improved a lot lately, mostly due to a retired line pilot adding much needed brain cells to the Crew Planning Dept.

Some of our senior lines on the -200 are downright cushy these days.

 

[dav8or]

CHQ 12 days for line holders
11 on res. I avg 14-15

 

[PositiveRate]

I make it a point to ask senior captains I fly with what sort of schedules they can hold....

Consistently, our senior guys hold 15/16 days off commutable lines. I've heard if you're a local senior FO or Capt and are in to the day trip thing, you can get up to 18 days off a month.

I'm pretty junior, but the guys right above me holding the lowest lines are getting around 14 days off/month.

 

[dashflyer]

At PDT the minimum is 10 days off. Max right now is about 16 days. Most of the lines get around 13 days off. Pay credit is hard to say, it changes quite a bit, one month it could be in the low 80's or the high 80's

 

[LearLove]

Although I'm not a commuter, the commutability of our lines at any base blows at best. The company just dosen't seem to care and as a result gets sick calls out the wazoo. Funny thing a commutable line I.E. one which starts in the afternoon and ends in the morning is good for people who don't commute either. I mean wouldn't anyone want to go in late on day one of a trip and get off early on day four. Like I said they just don't care.

No matter how much we scream at them they continue to make a vast majority of the trips show early on the first day and get in late afternoon/early evening on the last.

Funny thing though, the days on the road (i.e. days 2 and 3 of a 4 day or day 2 of a 3 day) have like 2 legs where you show a 7am and do like ROC-DCA-ROC and are done by 10:30am and go to the hotel and do nothing. Meanwhile day 4 of a 4 day has a 12.5 hour duty day and 8 legs and gets in at 9:30pm. And they wonder why some around here are pissed. If they can build line like this, they most likley can do it the other way, but like I said they just don't care.

 

[Sphincter Boy]

11-13

 

[B52GUNNER]

right now 30 +

 

[ACE]

At Comair a line holder usual gets 15 days off. Reserve is min 11 days soon to be 12 days in a 31 calender day month on our contracts aniversary in june. If you do mostly one days trips you can get 18 days off. Min line is built to 82.

 

[Skyward]

XJET min. is 11, average line is 14.5 and 78 hours. Or something like that.

 

[AWACoff]

146 schedules for May out of ATW show min 12 days off on reserve and 14 to 18 days off for line holders with around an 80hr block. This is for AWAC.

 

[LearLove]

For May I have 14 days off and blocked for 86 hours. That 86 hours is all flight time too no dead heads or soft pay credits i.e. min pay hour days ect..

 

[Caveman]

Just read my schedule for May. 16 days off. 83 hours. No less than 3 days in a row off all month. Every Sunday off. Two four day trips. Three two day trips. One out and back. I started one week vacation today and with consecutive days off that I bid for I don't go back to work until the second week of May. With two years seniority I'm just over halfway up the seniority list for FO's. Life is good at CMR.

 

[Anaconda]

i can get a very commutable line at comair with 15 days off a month, anywhere from 82 to 85 hours of credit a month. i would peg my f/o seniority at around half way up the list with just over two years here (86er).

four 4-day trips for may: trip, two days off, trip, five days off, trip, three days off, trip, 5 days off in that order...

i would like to correct one commonly held misconception that ACE mentioned in his post. when we go to 12 days min for reserves in june, it will be for 31 day "bid periods", not "calender months". this may not seem important, but it is. jan and mar are 31 day months, but they are NOT 31 day bid periods. so, only 11 days off for those months.

isn't mesa's new contract something like 8 days off for reserves? way to raise the bar there...

 

[chperplt]

I've been averaging 16 days off a month with 85 hours flying. With my commuting, I'm home 13 or so days a month.

 

[dondk]

Pinnacle...

18 is the best I have ever seen, the lowest for a line holder is usually 11 but 10 is per contract.

Reserves can be either 12 or 10 days off depending on the type of reserve.

All bases are about equal in time off, the average tends to be in the 13-15 day's off range with block in the mid 80's.

Captains recently.. 90+ in block (guarantee is 75) and 11 days off as an average when they were bidding seperately from us.

I am in the middle seniority for my base (DTW) and can hold a commutable 14 day line that blocks anywhere in the mid 80's.

With some trips you can get a the first day start in the late afternoon/early evening and finish on the last day before 9 am.

Lastly.. money can be made here as we have open time like nothing I have ever seen before. For whatever reason we do not give open time to reserves, so the line holders get richer and the reserve get guarantee and maybe 20 hours a month if they are lucky... 30-7 is almost a given once or twice a month for most guys.

 

[KingAirKiddo]

I have 31 days off in May as one of the most junior pilots on the ACA seniority list