My vacation was awesome. Loved it. There was no chance of direct flights to and from Miami so my wife and I had to make a stop. No big deal, all worked out fine. I had just one reserve day (today) before being off for three more days. I thought there wasn’t much they could [...]

January was a very slow month for me. I flew all of 18 hours. January is historically very slow for airlines. Most of my flying was done with zero passengers on board. My airline uses the slow month to do major matenence on planes. Several planes took turns being flown to the paint shop. I [...]

Here I sit in seat 24A at 34,000 feet headed home from a long two day trip. “Zzyzx Rd” is being played on my Zune HD. The song’s lyrics almost fit the life of a low seniority pilot. I get to go home in one week. But I’m leaving home in three weeks. They throw [...]

Yesterday was a long day. I woke up in my own bed around 5AM as that’s when my sugar momma (aka my wife who thankfully agreed to support a regional First Officer) gets up. I was assigned reserve at home from 10AM until 2AM. At 9:59AM my phone rang. Three day trip assigned. It wasn’t [...]

I flew with three different Captains last week. Each one was unique. The first Captain, I will call him Brian,  is the most junior Captain on my plane in my base. I am the most junior First Officer on my plane in my base. So there are many times that we get assigned the same [...]

I should be preparing for push back but instead I am sitting in the terminal…why? Delayed. I’m feeling huge today. I brought my HP Mini 5101 Netbook and Microsoft 8GB Zune instead of my 15 inch Macbook pro and Zune HD. For reasons I can’t figure out, the inbound plane is running an hour late. [...]