I've searched all over the 'net and can't find these if they are available.  Is there anyplace you can find an airline's Trip Schedules the pilots bid on?  For instance, I want to simulate the 1, 2, 3, or 4-day Trip Schedules a pilot would bid on each month for Southwest airlines.  The closest thing I found is a virtual Southwest Airline site that supposedly uses the "current real world trip schedules the pilots bid on each month", but you can't get to them in the VA's Dispatch area unless you join the VA (I don't want to join a VA).

Using FlightAware I can track a particular AIRPLANE Southwest uses, and the route(s) it flies over a given day (or 3 or 4 days), but that may not reflect the airplane changing CREWS during the same time period.  I want to find the schedule(s) an individual pilot would bid on and fly on a 3 or 4-day Trip Schedule for the airline.

Thanks for any help.

 

Unless you know a pilot who works for an airline you're not going to find something like that online.

That's a matter of security! You will not find these kind of information.

Regards

Pat

I agree with Mike, you’re not going to find that information without knowing someone at the airline.

I can’t imagine how it can possibly be anything to do with security and I doubt it’s commercially sensitive either so ask a pilot at Southwest and they will probably tell you.

In most cases (not all, indeed not at the airline I fly for but most others) crews will join an aircraft at a certain time and fly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 sectors on it, then get off. In shorthaul, they will then return to the airport about 12 hours later and repeat the process with whatever aircraft is there. They will do that until they return to their base at the end of their duty period on the last day of the trip.

Exact trip constructions can be a mixed bag and you obviously have anomalies (that occur more than you’d expect) with single sector days and/or positioning sectors.

You could make a fair stab at a trip by just following the above and choosing an aircraft (start with either the first flight of the day or one between about 12 and 2 in the afternoon).

i appreciate this doesn’t answer your question but hope it helps you make your own trip constructions approximate reality.

Ian

 

Not Southwest Airlines, but this thread might give you an idea of what you're looking for...

https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/regional/5651-typical-schedule-rj-pilot.html