I'm just going to leave this riiiiiiight here...

Geebus. What I am talking about is when CS calls on day 4 to extend me. Or when they used to call and try to extend into an overnight and JM the next day. And per my union, ACARS is not a legal notification to have someone contact them.
 
JordanD said:
The only person that would make his argument is a rabid slam clicker. Just about the ONLY parameter I put into PBS is overnights I like to avoid.
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Hell, I was pretty slam-clickerish, but even I cared where I overnighted. There’s a big difference between a Hyatt Place in Indy and a Hilton in Fort Lauderdale, even if you don’t care about hanging out with the crew.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Hell, I was pretty slam-clickerish, but even I cared where I overnighted. There’s a big difference between a Hyatt Place in Indy and a Hilton in Fort Lauderdale, even if you don’t care about hanging out with the crew.
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I can be too depending on the crew/my mood, but exactly. Crappy hotel with thin walls that I hate? Avoid.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
We fought tooth and nail to make sure they couldn’t get ACARS reroutes. They’d still have a crew scheduler waiting for us at the gate, but if we saw them before the door opened we’d jump out the service door and run. :)
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We once had an AirTran pilot come running up to us at the last minute, all out of breath in ATL. Said he did just that, flagged down a tug, had them bring him over to our gate so we could take him home. :-)
 
Roger Roger said:
I’m trying to think of an apt metaphor for a fight between a Jet U and a Gulfstream Academy guy...
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Haters gonna hate :rolleyes:



Again in context: domestic only airline and until the merger is fully complete, I literally have a choice of the same ~18 city overnights for the past 6 years. And I've been to all 18 numerous, numerous times. So at this point it's a simple case of a hotel is a hotel. If I flew for an domestic and international airline, then I'd see how bidding specific overnights can be a thing. In my particular case it just doesn't matter. I don't have an issue with any of the hotels in our system and most of them are Hilton level or better. No Fairfield Inn, Bayfield, Quality Inn, etc.
 
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Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Haters gonna hate :rolleyes:



Again in context: domestic only airline and until the merger is fully complete, I literally have a choice of the same ~18 city overnights for the past 6 years. And I've been to all 18 numerous, numerous times. So at this point it's a simple case of a hotel is a hotel. If I flew for an domestic and international airline, then I'd see how bidding specific overnights can be a thing. In my particular case it just doesn't matter. I don't have an issue with any of the hotels in our system and most of them are Hilton level or better. No Fairfield Inn, Bayfield, Quality Inn, etc.
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"I like peanut butter and tuna fish sandwiches, I don't see why people don't just eat it."

Sorry, but way off. In my base I have maybe 10 most months, most of them pretty crappy by my standards, for whatever reason. It's actually one of the reasons I have my bid in to get OUT of my base, because it's so monotonous. But I bid the overnights for a reason. Be it a favorite restaurant, favorite activity, or *gasp* bidding for overnights where my friends live so I actually get to see them more than once or twice a year. San Diego was one of our crappiest hotels in the system, but I bid that overnight because walking around downtown or by the beach in the sunshine was badass. Force me into an overnight in YEG instead, which is probably the nicest hotel we stay at, but out in the middle of absolutely nowhere... I'd be pissed. In my opinion if the hotel is your only consideration for what makes a good overnight, you're doing it wrong or I struggle to understand why you're in a career where a majority of your life is spent on the road.
 
JordanD said:
"I like peanut butter and tuna fish sandwiches, I don't see why people don't just eat it."

Sorry, but way off. In my base I have maybe 10 most months, most of them pretty crappy by my standards, for whatever reason. It's actually one of the reasons I have my bid in to get OUT of my base, because it's so monotonous. But I bid the overnights for a reason. Be it a favorite restaurant, favorite activity, or *gasp* bidding for overnights where my friends live so I actually get to see them more than once or twice a year. San Diego was one of our crappiest hotels in the system, but I bid that overnight because walking around downtown or by the beach in the sunshine was badass. Force me into an overnight in YEG instead, which is probably the nicest hotel we stay at, but out in the middle of absolutely nowhere... I'd be pissed. In my opinion if the hotel is your only consideration for what makes a good overnight, you're doing it wrong or I struggle to understand why you're in a career where a majority of your life is spent on the road.
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I just bid around the best TGI Fridays in the world.
 
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