CoolGuy From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 410 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1692 times:
When pilots become more senior, they generally have greater opportunity to choose their routes. What do the more senior pilots choose, and why? I'm guessing longer flights to interesting international destinations, but that's probably also because that minimizes the time needed for logistical issues on the ground. Do senior pilots ever choose flights that are not commonly taken by new pilots, for personal reasons (other than to get home maybe).
JAL777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (6 years 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1678 times:
DFW-NRT is American's most senior route according to the flight attendant on my flight the other day. She was seniority #3 amongst all other flight attendants and had started FA'ing for AA on DC-6's.
AAR90 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 3410 posts, RR: 50 Reply 2, posted (6 years 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1633 times:
Not an "easy" question at all. There are as many different answers as there are as many different senior pilots.
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Nzrich From New Zealand, joined Dec 2005, 1488 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (6 years 3 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1618 times:
I know for UA some of the most senior routes were to New Zealand when they flew here and too Australia .. Thats is just by the age of the crew that flew those routes..
Olympus69 From Canada, joined Jun 2002, 1737 posts, RR: 8 Reply 5, posted (6 years 3 months 4 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 1438 times:
Quoting CoolGuy (Thread starter): When pilots become more senior, they generally have greater opportunity to choose their routes. What do the more senior pilots choose, and why?
Sounds to me like you are taking a POLL asking for pilot PREFERENCES.
BAGoldEx From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 302 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (6 years 3 months 4 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 1403 times:
Actually it sounds to me like he's simply asking for opinions and/or factual information on something relative to civil aviation, that being where senior pilots are typically placed. If anything it seems more operations oriented, but I frankly don't care to be so nitpicky about that kind of stuff. A poll would involve asking a sampling of pilots which the person clearly did not do, I wouldn't be so quick to bite the guys head off, there is no shortage of idiotic posts on this board that go on and on without interruption, what does it really matter. Seriously, what does Doug Parker's sentencing and dui have to do with civil aviation, since when do BMW's fly?
CoolGuy From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 410 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 3 months 4 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1372 times:
I'm just wondering if there are any trends, like senior pilots always take certain routes and never take ones that are for less senior ones, etc. As an example, I fly CO EWR-CLE or LGA-CLE and wonder if that would be one in high demand because it's between two hubs.
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