Originally Posted by
Chief Willy
Current SH flying days are heavily impacted by service reductions due BA’s and HAL’s resourcing fubars. Thus they are not typical. In normal times there are almost no 1-sector days. Tours are usually 3/3, 3/2/3, 3/4/3, 3/2/2/3 etc with only occasional standovers. EASA limits apply minus 30 mins. Junior lines normally involve 6 days of 3/3s, near minimum rest at home and downroute for 6 days straight. Incredibly tiring. Also on a tour you seldom keep the same aircraft and can spend 2.5 hours at T5 waiting for your next plane to show up. With seniority day trips and 1 sector days are more possible. As stated above you won’t get weekends off for a few years.
Thanks for the info. Certainly makes a lot more sense