normal worker has
52 weekends plus
12 public holidays (or more depending on
the state) plus
4 weeks annual leave
that is 144 days off a year (about 40%)
pilots get 42 days off (about 12%)
i hope you are not a captain if that is the way you
look at data before you, you think we should go from 12% down to 8%. An airline managers dream.
It is easy to see who is getting raped by their employer
so many entirely missing your point
it’s not so much that the pilot ends up working 323 days of the year
it’s that those days off are received in a haphazard manner, often at short notice and without any consultation
the normal worker knows they have every weekend off, every public holiday etc, IN ADDITION TO annual leave and the rest of it
therefore can plan- whatever they want to do. Footy on a Saturday, church on Sunday, childcare, date night, whatever. And months in advance
to do any of that in aviation you’d have to book leave, and you’d run out of it very quickly- after around…42 days in fact!!