Stay away from them, abusive behaviour towards pilots and fake self-employed contract
You don’t get a contract, you’re a service provider and even though this type of contact is already banned in Europe as it’s ilegal it’s the only one they are offering.
The company has reduced the amount of days off from 9 to 7. If you still want 9 days off per month then you have to refuse taking holidays during the whole year. This has been changed unilaterally without any explanation. It’s hard to believe I know, but the company is all run by new management that doesn’t care about pilots. They can change your base without respecting any notice and they expect you to move to your new base from day to night.
The block hours is very low BUT with the roster it’s imposible to keep your self in good shape. You don’t get enough rest, all can change from night to day. They call you on days off, there is a total lack of ethics from the management side. The amount of pressure and stress is imposible to handle as you never have anything clear of what to expect for your month, week or even day.
Lot of taxis in the middle of the night to cover gaps in productions. You can start your duty at 01.00 in the morning flying from A to B, then taking a 2 hours taxi in the middle of the night from B to C and then another flying duty again from C to D. Easily 10 hours duty in total because of their lack of crew and resources. It’s crazy but that’s what it is.
Floating contracts were also removed from day to night without even respecting the notice for that.
They don’t release a real roster, what they’re basically doing is to release a roster full of “blank days” and then they use those blank days in order to change all your duties without any notice. It’s imposible to plan anything or have any sort of life. Sometimes they’re changing already past blank days to off so you end up waisting your off days.
Bases are random and are also unstable.
The pay is low compared to all other cargo companies.
The SOPs are weak, the maintenance of the planes is very poor. Lot of issues happening in the line. Recent depressurisation with an emergency descent in a plane that had been reported several times from the pilots. Everything ended badly for BlueBird and Amazon is not considering them reliable anymore. Let’s see what happens but they’re far from success when it comes to customers.
Most of their pilots are looking for other jobs but according to BlueBird they just don’t care and they’re in control of the situation.
Avoid attending to their assessment unless you don’t have anything else.