Originally Posted by
Council Van
Is it even a public transport operation or private? I heard some horror story's about the biz jet pilots of a well known excavator manufacturer including them turning up at 7am in the morning expecting to take the boss to be Caribbean holiday home and not actually departing till the evening on the trip over the Atlantic. The story teller told me it was run as a private operation so crew duty limits did not apply. Fact or fiction? I don't know.
Fact. Had that once in Nigeria, same shiny outfit mentioned in my post above. They pulled my crew and me out of bed at 0400 local for a 0645 departure. Yeah. Like that would happen. Knowing my bit I arranged that we would be at the aircraft earliest by 0645 loc.
Then the "funny" part started. The usually calling to OPS, PA, even accountable manager, bla bla bla, we took off from Abuja to Stansted at 2240 local with an early morning arrival. Somewhere in between there was some rest hidden that we never had.