Tilly,
before being in a flag carrier I was in a private airline (both schedule and charter), and my roster was dramatically different.
Having known something like what you describe, I really cannot complain now (even if some of my collegues do...). We have many rules (negotiated by the unions of course) that prevent the airline from savagely rostering us. Like (for MH) :
-no more than six days on in a row
-6 days on in a row maximum once a month
-when you are on 6 days in a row it's not possible to be in a 3 days on followed by another 3 days on or a 4 +2 (could be 2 +2+2, or 2+1+1+1 etc)
-6 days OFF in a row once a month.
-if one of your flights is cancelled you cannot be rostered on a flight exceeding the return time of your originally rostered flight
-when you are on STD-BY you can be assigned a flight covering only your STD-BY days.
-12 days off
- etc etc
An average month is between 56 and 65 flight hours (+ maybe 1 day or two on a ground course), max rosterable being 75, while it was 90-100 on my previous company.
As I said, this has all been negotiated by the CC Unions, and the company IS making money, just to discredit the belief that you have to treat personnel like slaves to make money.
Last edited by flyblue; 19th September 2003 at 04:28.