Morbid curiosity. Upgrade times?

[bLizZuE]

I do TPA-LAX weekly now.

DAL has 1-2 a day, American has 1 a day, AS is starting up in Nov, and Untied is joining the party soon after. Minus the timezone destruction It could be worse.

I’ll just assume that wasn’t on purpose

 

[ERfly]

Heck there are a bevy of AA‘s jumping ship to SouthernJets. I wonder what’s up over there.

Oh jeez. Where does one begin?

 

[SFCC/UND]

Obviously never done the widebody FO gig, but I was FO for 11 years and now CA for 3.

I'll take CA any day of the week.

You can't beat being a FO on the widebody. FO, IRO, and or FO2. Get up to cruise and pass out and get paid for it. Being a CA is too much work.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

You can't beat being a FO on the widebody. FO, IRO, and or FO2. Get up to cruise and pass out and get paid for it. Being a CA is too much work.

Sounds boriiiiiiing.

I’m an engineer, technical mindset. I enjoy the job and the challenges it brings.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

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I say that as someone about to commute 3 hours to the coast because I upgraded.

MCO?

 

[derg]

You can't beat being a FO on the widebody. FO, IRO, and or FO2. Get up to cruise and pass out and get paid for it. Being a CA is too much work.

Plan the layover, eat, play with CPDLC, watch movies, listen to the newbies screw up radio calls, eat some more, take a nap, coast in, eat again, all good.

Domestic is high risk, too much work and the clientele can be… challenging.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Plan the layover, eat, play with CPDLC kids, watch movies, listen to the newbies kids screw up radio calls, eat some more, take a nap, coast in, eat again, all good.

Eww. That sounds like home. Why would I want that at work?

 

[Baronman]

Domestic is high risk,

How so?

 

[Screaming_Emu]

How so?

Multiple legs a day probably. Weather impacts a hub, you might have to deal with it a few legs a day vs just the one leg.

 

[Kingairer]

I have this conversation with my (non-training) first officers often.

If you like money and time off, 330/350.

If you love crappy layovers, long days, foraging for food, having people say “Welp, that’s your job NOW, son!” and the spouse asking “But I thought you upgraded? Where’s the money? AND you’re missing (event)?!” take the early captain bid.

When you can only deal with one conspiracy theorists at a time…upgrade.

 

[derg]

When you can only deal with one conspiracy theorists at a time…upgrade.

It’s good to be king on the west coast.

Super-chill and no “CHICOMS GOT ROBOTIC BATZ SPREADING RONA TO MY GRANDCHILDREN” nutbags.

 

[derg]

How so?

Multiple flights, in and out of the weather, plane swaps, short layovers, a higher number of “Karens” and airport food.

 

[derg]

Eww. That sounds like home. Why would I want that at work?

i wouldn’t fly for sometimes up to six weeks And never had a layover shorter than 25 hours in beautiful locales.

 

[nc1982]

i wouldn’t fly for sometimes up to six weeks And never had a layover shorter than 25 hours in beautiful locales.

Haters gonna hate.

 

[BobDDuck]

Multiple flights, in and out of the weather, plane swaps, short layovers, a higher number of “Karens” and airport food.

As sporty as things can get trying to understand what the hell Magadan or Ujung Pandang is trying to tell you to do at 0200 local, I'd rather deal with that than 4 legs in and out of a weathered in hub, with crappy airport food and an 11 hour layover to look forward to.

 

[jtrain609]

Anyone flying domestic that isn't carrying a cooler of delicious, home cooked food is doing it wrong. If there's one thing I miss about domestic flying, it's being able to control what I eat, and when I eat. Now I'm at the whim of whatever is on the plane, and whoever is open when I get to the overnight.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Anyone flying domestic that isn't carrying a cooler of delicious, home cooked food is doing it wrong. If there's one thing I miss about domestic flying, it's being able to control what I eat, and when I eat. Now I'm at the whim of whatever is on the plane, and whoever is open when I get to the overnight.

No more red eyes?

 

[jtrain609]

No more red eyes?

Every leg I do now is a red eye.

 

[Hiboglossi]

Anyone flying domestic that isn't carrying a cooler of delicious, home cooked food is doing it wrong. If there's one thing I miss about domestic flying, it's being able to control what I eat, and when I eat. Now I'm at the whim of whatever is on the plane, and whoever is open when I get to the overnight.

Oddly enough, packing food seems to be a sore subject for many on here. In the past we've had threads where tons of people complained about pilots packing food from home.

 

[BobDDuck]

Every leg I do now is a red eye.

I thought the west bound flights were AM departures?

And nothing is stopping you from packing a cooler for at least the outbound leg.