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Chi829 said:

It would be great for you to go along because it's one leg there,,,, layoever and one leg back,,,, you can go with him on trips like that with no problem.

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Wow - for my BF to get flights like that it would take serious seniority!! (He only gets them when someone calls in sick)...I don't know how it is flying out of the US on Intl trips but my fella gets 13 day trips that go
Fly into SE Asia: 30hr layover
Asia to UK: 2 day layover
UK to Asia: 30hr layover
Asia to UK: 2 day layover
UK to Asia: 30 hr layover
Fly back home

Miserable [img]images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[roz]

And of course the part of Asia he's in is not the part you're in...right? Yikes!

[Kristie]

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Chi829 said:
Krisite-
I forgot to ask you? How are Doug's schedules lately? With his seniority, is he able to hold weekends off? DOes he normally do 4 on 3 off?

[/ QUOTE ]his seniority has increased enough that he is able to get all the weekends off and do 4 day on, 3 day off type trips... i like that he gets the weekends, but the pain in the rear is that he's working 4 days - some of which are commutable, some of which aren't.. so the opportunity for us to actually travel together after a trip are few and far between. figure he works 4 days and if we want to go on a trip, it takes his 3 days off.. then he's right back in there on a 4 day trip - so it's almost like he really gets NO break...

so we're trying to get his schedule to work out a bit better.. he still wants the weekends offk, but i'm thinking if he were to work one weekned a month or so, then maybe he could get a couple of longer weekends so we can go somewhere/do something AND he would get some *home* time. [img]images/graemlins/shrug.gif[/img] you can only do what you're able to work with in this industry and it's all about the finagling! [img]images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-044.gif[/img] [img]images/graemlins/874.gif[/img]

[skibum515]

what if he was to book a trip (line?) that was 4 on, 3 off - 3 off then 4 on (and start the next trip with the 3 off again)? that way he'd have 6 days off in a row

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roz said:
And of course the part of Asia he's in is not the part you're in...right? Yikes!

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Yup...although I'm toying with a suprise visit to Singapore this weekend..It means taking a day and a half off work, but its already been nearly a month since I saw him last and could well be the end of July before I get the chance again!

[Kristie]

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skibum515 said:
what if he was to book a trip (line?) that was 4 on, 3 off - 3 off then 4 on (and start the next trip with the 3 off again)? that way he'd have 6 days off in a row

[/ QUOTE ]that'd work great if i wasn't working full time & if all the schedules didn't change each month...Each schedule changes in destination, duty in time, duty out time, layover time etc etc that it can't ALWAYS work out that way unless you have really HIGH seniority in the company.

he was actually able to do that this month, so we're going to take a friday - monday and go somewhere (i think we're trying for Berlin or Moscow since they're new DAL destinations)...

it's actually pretty hard for him to get a schedule that works like that with the 6 days overlaping weekends. gotta remember that there are 300 something lines (at DAL) to bid on and Sir Pilot has to go thru each one to find the top 150 that will be the best for both him & for us...it's hard to do..because there's a lot of things that are important to making the schedule a good schedule for all parties involved.

I've asked him to compile his top 10 of what's important to what's least important and I'll post it as soon as i get them from him. [img]images/graemlins/874.gif[/img]

[skibum515]

Heh, I suppose I should start learning how all this works...John will hopefully be heading to the regionals in a year or so! He's got his commercial checkride scheduled for Friday and his multi checkride scheduled for Wed!

[Kristie]

WOW! already!? they must be working him pretty hard at ATP!

[skibum515]

He's at Skymates and he's finally starting to get to the pace we both expected him to be at. His instructor went on a cruise for a week right after John got there and he was using another instructor (a substitute if you will) and this substitute instructor seemed as though he could care less about John and his flying and goals and whatnot, so John feels like he more or less wasted a whole week while his original CFI was gone. Now he's back though and John's flying like crazy. Good because I was getting [img]images/graemlins/furious.gif[/img] that he went all the way to Texas and was sitting on his butt when he could be doing that in Michigan! [img]images/graemlins/kick.gif[/img]

[Kristie]

[img]images/graemlins/speechless-smiley-017.gif[/img] oh skymates! sorry bout that, i thought he was going to ATP?!

glad to hear he got off his [img]images/graemlins/butt.gif[/img]