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Which AW personality would you most like to meet?
- Thread starter Brett327
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Oh...I see. That pic was well prior to me digging DD coffee and Metallica.I'm talking about the helo pic with you allegedly at the controls.
You have 12 hours, no car, narrow body FO salary and it is a short walk down the road from the hotel. Welcome to the glamorous life of an airline pilot.
The horror!
Wait, I always thought it was about The Show?
It is about The Show. If you do your schedule right, you're home 16-18 nights a month with 15 or so days off completely. So a junior pilot gets a few layovers that suck. The rest of the time the QOL beats the shit out of anything the Navy provides. And if you're on a narrowbody after the first 2 years, it's by choice. But I bet you'd still be making more than your Navy pay.
To recap re. QOL, that is 15 days at your neighborhood Hooters and DD. PER MONTH!!
Fixed it for the Massachusetts folks...
We had 9 in my town growing up...it took a PCS to va beach to have easy access to one again.
12hr layover in ATL with a Hooters on FO pay beats the hell out of 12hrs in a 3rd world Centcom country with a DFAC on AD pay... Just saying.
Only if you're Mad Dog
I don't think I will have an opportunity to jump back to widebody until perhaps the 5 year mark. I keep watching the seniority on the junior 777 FO in the AA system and it is 2000 numbers senior to me. Our 76/75 fleet is rapidly shrinking, I still have friends flying it, but they keep losing lines. Will be awhile before I can jump to the 77, 78 or 350 (which we just pushed back our order by 18-22 months per bird, sigh!). It appears that the other majors have a better shot at going to wide body sooner, though a lot of my friends have switched to narrow body to improve QOL (become line holders, etc). All in all, with over a decade of stagnation, I can't complain how good life is!
Of course, everything is by choice in the airline biz. But you choose among the cards dealt ya, and considering your own situation. Some bases may not have wide body flying or so little it is crazy senior. So sure, at the 2.5 year mark you can bid to another base, commute 2 hours and sit in a crash pad because you are stuck on reserve for the next 3 -4 years. Or, like the case for some guys I flew with on the MD 80, the schedules on the 777 paid just a few hundred more a month than a top MD 80 line due to the effiency of the flying. So they stayed narrow body and didn't have to deal with flying to third world countries.
F**K yeah!
Some of the dudes on our masters road racing team took me to Dunkin' today during our road ride...good times! Just for the record...Dunkin' is one of our team sponsors.
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Holy shit I love this thread