Originally Posted by
hunterboy
I suppose a month off at home in June/July could be worse? I'm not going to stress about it tbh. I gather that there wont be much flying going on anyway.
A lot of free time in the summer has traditionally been a huge and almost unattainable luxury for almost everyone in civil aviation. Maybe except for management pilots and those on the very top of the seniority list for their fleets. However, the catch is that it stops being enjoyable the moment one gets thrown out of their flying job and faced with the perspective of stacking shelves or driving a delivery van. Sorry about being negative, but that's exactly where one in every three pilots is heading soon if this utter madness carries on. If there's no flying in the summer, many of the companies relying on the summer months to make up for the weak season in the winter simply won't survive.