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For me it's was a brand spankin' new 321 NEO, only 37 hrs of proving runs and the delivery flight - - - or whatever our books say that we have to do before it enters regular line-pilot dude service. It totally still had that new airplane smell and the flight deck didn't look like a dust and...

~24 hrs and all of those ‘in Azul’ will find out their fate. There is no soft landing for this one.

Yeah. 2 commutes is my goal. (or less) Alternate RSV and lines depending on the season. I've got nothing else - there really isn't any good option. @everyone... does anyone know a good realtor specializing in Queens, NY? I'm gonna buy some QOL if I'm gonna be in NYC.

I wish that I could handle the sleep management thing - I'd have been all over the SQ. My 'red eye' management technique has always been to keep myself on west coast time. That would have been the pathway to destruction if I bid over. Plus, all the really nice trips were just out of my reach...

I ended up getting booted out exactly how I thought I would... the plug in LA was exactly the # I predicted. I'm still looking at 5-7 years to get back if all stays the same. Which, if the delivery schedule stays the same will be a pretty good prediction. The funny thing is that way back when I...

The math says (with retirements) 5-7 years if everything remains static - and we've seen how "static" the last few years and bids have been. I'm planning (at least mentally) that it's gonna be very full US AIR for the foreseeable future. I think that we are close enough on the list that...

Yeah, it is. I have just about every inch of that commute memorized in my bones from all of the commuting and DHing. The timing is so ingrained that I don't even have to think... if I'm headed to the airport it's "I'll see you in 9 hours." followed (usually) by "So, when are you going to be...

Even with the added cost of the transcon commute the pay cut is too substantial. Theoretically, you have to credit 108 hrs to match the RSV guarantee - and that's before holiday, vacation, anything... if you use a typical transcon as an example, that still equates to 19 "days" of being on the...

I haven't figured that out. 0%. I'm exactly in the middle of everyone getting the ax. Based on retirements, minimum of 5 years, most likely 6-6.5 (7 at the outset) to get back in. For me, that'll be right at 20 years and ~22% on the master list.

Not really, because IFKYK. And anyway, this is all hypothetical, virtual, and fictional. Lots of opinions in another thread about #2. I have mine, I typically only share it during the post-flight carbohydrate debrief.

my crystal ball has failed me again. I'm really going to miss being in socal all the time.

Yep. I don't think I can do it. I analyzed all the pairings, I'm too junior to do the fun ones... i.e. 4 day/48 hr layovers. And even those, that's a lot of life-force and mana drain on either end of the trips. If I was in base, that's one thing. But, I live on Cali time. That's my red-eye...

To all my Azul siblings, I wish you all the best of luck over the next 3 weeks as we await the results of the staffing changes. 18 hours from closure and I'm still undecided about my percentages. All I do know is that there is a unwanted/undesirable transcon commute in my future as I get...

"Kids today suck." -Signed, the generation that raised all those kids. I'll save my thoughts on the future of this awesome place for the vampire hours when I usually post stuff because apparently I can think more coherently on a red-eye schedule. I will say that I still promote...

4th Amendment, Bill of Rights. (Penn & Teller used to sell a metal engraved version to keep in your pocket that you could give to the TSA when you "hand over your rights" after the metal detector beeped.)

AzulNorte has a "PTO" shell game system that is weirdly mutually beneficial - even though the accrual could be more IAW industry accrual. Sick... call in sick. Deduct PTO. RSV sick has it's own deal... 4.2 hrs for the day - you can PTO or call in sick depending on the grid. You can't get your...

RIP Ali. We may have parted on not the best of terms, but the time I spent as a freelance instructor at Santa Monica Aviation was a very important part of my career development. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/450397 View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMl3ppDEc0...

Your complementary 3 month AARP membership will be activated just as soon as you confirm your email. :)

One of my favorite SAI stories was when one of the senior Captains get pretty sick while out on the road on one of the 18 day rotations where we basically had a 747 and a couple of crews and were literally just sent out to complete random missions... everyone took him to the hospital (ER) - he...

Young people today will never know the struggle of knowing that going to the EBT/Food Stamp office to apply for benefits in your airline uniform became a fireable offense because the general public could never know that teenage fast food wages were being paid to highly trained professional...

Throw away your hedonic treadmill and maybe take a walk outside for a change. Seriously, there is no magic work rule fix. No button to press. Find some joy in the current suck and figure out what you need to do to get your baseline where you need it to be. I'm at a different shop, but I was...

We do this too "domestically" - fly somewhere, 22-24ish off, fly back - maybe it's a red eye, maybe a early as heck show. I think that everyone does them... Somehow I'm supposed to "sleep twice" in a rest period that's built as either a 'early as heck wakeup body clock time" or right before a...

Congrats! Part of me is wondering that since you were never gonna be onboarded at "NJM" if you could have just shown up, got the type, and walked out. Be the hero for everyone who is going to have to sign some sort of "training contract" for the next X number of years. I think that you are...

That's awesome. It'll be like putting on a old pair of shoes. Not the best traction, but it's gonna fit just right. I hope that you'll be able to leverage currency into something bigger and better if the opportunity presents itself.

A bit of a necropost... but the conference went very well. I was told that I give a really good speech (I was told in no uncertain terms that I would be called upon next year to talk...) and the person following me jokingly said stuff about the magician that followed the Beatles. So, thanks...

~20ish years ago, I did this exact same thing... the only difference is I ended up getting such a bad feeling from the recruiter that I bugged out somewhere right after the testing/physical/processing at the MEPS - and then the recruiter kept calling me weekly, bi-weekly, then monthly for like 2...

So, I was listening to one of the career counselors on a podcast on my walk last night. All the above is very salient. Knowing that you have 12 years left unless the 67 folks get their way in 5 years is good data. My best guess of your path is probably going to be an RJ CA (1 to 3 years?) to...

I was told that in my neck of the woods (back when I was teaching) that they want you to typically come up through the ranks and then apply to the Aviation division... I'm sure that would be a fun gig. The 121.5 guys had a couple of LE pilots talk about the lifestyle on their podcast if I...

What's the plusses/minuses of the DEC CJO's?

Other data points to address... the pathway to hiring through the airline sponsored zero-to-hero programs and how that's going to affect both Major/Legacy hiring in the future. Also - peak retirements from the last hiring waves. Not post-plague hiring, but the time leading up to that. i.e. the...

I'd go with the DEC gig that is the smallest poop sandwich with the most toppings... pay, easiest commute, closest base to home, potential flow, etc... and then grind and network like you are selling Ronco and move on as soon as you can. No matter what you choose, it's not going to be ideal...

If you miss it at all I can point you toward some Union volunteer opportunities once you are off probation. :)

Of course executive compensation is going up at the same time WARN notices are going out. To all my (our) brothers, sisters, and siblings at Yellow: I’ve personally been through this before. It can be mentally crushing at times. The highs and lows of getting furloughed, facing a potential...

Well, even with a CBA my shop isn’t exempt from California State Law. They don’t advertise it… make you jump through extra hoops… i.e. you have to make a phone call, you have to state that it Cali Kin Care ‘sick’ - but then it’s non-punitive. I know that no one wants to be a test case… but…...

I'm sure that you are smart enough to take advantage of all the resources, but how does the "California Sick" - i.e. Cali Kin Care - apply to your situation. Can you leverage the provisions of it to get some more non-punitive time off when burnt out? I know that Cali based pilots fall under a...

So, what seems different from this vs. the prior language is that the whole "you get to come back after you've already retired at your prior seniority thing" is gone. This has a hard cutoff built into it... you aren't 65 yet... you may continue. Over 65 - game over, man - but can be hired back...

Well, yeah. That’s the whole point of this. And formalizing a program in 121 aviation. Of course, as a matter of discussion, sometimes it will descend to ‘can you believe what that goofball FO/CA did’ and then turns into a complain-fest about the generic person in the other seat. Very...

Oh, this is good too! "Local Tribal Knowledge" codified. Both official and unofficial sources. Reminds me of something I used to do... for the wacka-doodle CAs that I used to fly with that were slightly on the spectrum vs. fully on the spectrum I would make little notes in my logbook about the...