SWA schedules/QOL vs AAI

[texman]

I think we can really have a nice JCBA when this is done, and still be productive.

 

[ATLplt]

You tell Ty that 4 days sux!

That depends...

That last two 4-days I worked credited 26+ and 27+ hours. Three of those a month and I'm happy (there aren't that many, but lots are 24+). So four 3-days at 20 a piece or three 4-days at over 26. Same days off but less commutes or trips to the airport. At least you get options. Only real downside is the amount of energy a 4-day will zap out of you. I don't think I moved off the couch on day 5, but at least I was home.

Now I don't know how it would translate over to trips, but your rigs may push them to over 30 trips a piece. Not bad at all. I'm a 75-80 hour sweet spot guy. Anything over that is cutting into my fun time.

I think QOL, in this day and age, all comes down to how smart you are with your company's trip trading/bidding technology and how well you can game the system. My $.02 anyway.

 

[scrub]

Who cares!!! Why do you guys keep stirring the pot? We will all be on the same page soon enough! Why are pilots so tribal? Enough of the my pee pee is bigger than yours, as they will all be the same size soon! Let's just stop the BS, work together and make it a great place for all!!! Be happy for once life's too short to be negative all the time!!!!

 

[Bob Dylan]

So the SLI hinges on Ty's commutes? LOL

Take the staple trannies. Don't let senior guys like Ty screw this up for you.


...by the way, word from a little birdie says it will be a staple or likely nothing at all (possibly some pref. interviews.) FWIW

 

[hairball1173]

I have a month of CDO's (continuos duty overnights) this month (June) I was able to get a line next month and was told that many of the CDO lines for next month have gone away. Rumor is more and more CDO's will be going away. I hope the rumor is true. They SUCK!!!!!

 

[StopNTSing]

Probably the biggest downside to our schedules is that there are relatively few commutable trips. Our whole AM/PM trip arrangement, while easier on the body, usually means a commuter will be overnighting either on the front or back end of most trips. Although the additional seven domiciles may reduce the need to commute for many ATN dudes (after the fence comes down, of course )

 

[SWA/FO]

That last two 4-days I worked credited 26+ and 27+ hours

I just did a 3 day that paid 28.1 trips (credits) straight time.... really.

 

[greenpilot]

As far as pay goes I will never be able to touch your pay. As far as schedule goes I am a 05 hire 717 Fo I get avg 17 days of the las three months I have had one whole week off during the month. Most times I have four day trips with a three day here and there. If I want I am able to get all weekends off and all holidays off. I am a commuter so I give up high time trips for commutable trips. Most months I work tues-fri. My trips start after 11:30 and end by 20:30. The only times I have to get a hotel in atl is if I have training.
I avg 80 hr a month.
If you don't like what you get for the month it is pretty easy to move things around with sap 1 and 2 and open time.
The one thing we have going for us is the commutable lines. Hands down your lines will alway pay more than ours. You also do better because you have more west coast flying than we do. When our 737 pilots get to the west coast they are done they can't get back to MKE, bwi or atl without timing out. You guys could fly bwi-lax and continue to any place out west getting you 7+hrs for the day. This is the main reason we look over staffed to you guys.
I know that when things are all said and done I am going to make lots more money at swa than at aai. This will help, but I have never bid my lines around $$$ my number 1 priority has always been time off. The extra money will never make up for the lost time spent with my family.

 

[Crash Pad]

I hate my Dad he is always gone. He thinks this BMW makes up for it... But it doesn't. Sure I don't have college loans but have you heard they are going to raise the inheritance tax... When it's all said and done I'll only get a couple hundred K when my Dad dies!

I hear ya Green... Mo money mo problems

 

[zippy32]

You tell Ty that 4 days sux!

"Oh yes, Jack speak Ty. Jack speak Ty really well."

Is this a civil toned SWA/AAI thread? Maybe there is hope after all. Cheers!