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Old 4th June 2025 | 20:22
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Bringingownfood
 
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Let me answer a few questions about this company. I’ll start with the worst part. During summer, expect some layovers, which will be an average of 3-5 days. Winters were quiet, but it might’ve changed. The worst flights are on layovers from 23:45 to 03:00 local check-in. Depending on your luck, you might have an awesome or fatigue-inducing roster. In summer, expect 3-4 night flights per month. In winter, perhaps 1. There are a lot of good parts. If you are coming from a low-cost company, you will find out how it feels to be respected. Especially if you are from the UK and get used to being harassed by airport security. There are part-time options, but with a full-time job during the low season, you can request 5 off days in a row and additional off days ( 5-3-2; there is no limit). The summer season is rough, but you can have 4 offs a month and some additional requests. 90% of your off requests are granted, and you can also bid for flights before and after your off days. For AYT base (this will be your base as an expat), winter was around 80-100 duty hours, and summer around 140+ duty hours. Basically, you will fly the same hours as a UK low-cost company, earn around 14-15K € net. To compensate with a UK low-cost, after 5 days in a row, I feel drained but not fatigued, but in SXS, you will feel fatigued, but you will fly more motivated because of duty hours payment,night payment, andoff day payment, etc.

CRM wise best company in Turkey, I’ve never talked with an expat unhappy about it. Training wise I thin it is on par with UK low costs. If you have more questions, you can ask under this topic.
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