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Old 10th December 2003 | 14:10
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Nineiron
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From: Ireland
Quality of life you get from a flying job is often a matter of personal circumstances. There are a great number of people who like to fly a few short sectors and go home each night. Life on night freight is a bit like long haul, going 'down route' for a few days, which is my personal choice. Six days off sounds OK but after 8 days round the route each night, forget the first 48hrs as being anything useful. An 8/6 roster seems to work OK with EAT and worked on the ACL A300 fleet. The idea of week on/week off has been proposed at EMA since the days of Air Bridge, HCL and ACL - but it never actually happens because FTLs remain commercial targets.
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