How do commercial airline pilots schedules work? What routes are more desirable?

Question

Are certain routes more desirable due to flight departure times or length? Do pilots get to choose what routes based on seniority?

Also if a pilot can’t fly their scheduled flight do they have an on call pilot that picks up that shift?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

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