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Old 29th July 2004 | 16:04
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pigsdofly
 
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From: Warlingham
Is the grass always greener?

Out of curiosity why have you been 'furiously' looking for jobs with Virgin other than any other company?
Most of their work is longhaul and I know that I may upset a few people here but Long haul is the majority of the time tedious. Yes, when things go wrong they do so on a fairly large scale but there's not much you're going to be responsible for when sitting in the Ops department.
Virgin do also run their own flight planning department. This is where the fun begins. Creating flight plans for aircraft whilst airbourne due to whatever the problem (there are loads to consider) Looking at the weather (Ops do look but don't really worry) and actually take the conditions in to account, ie, Upper winds en-route, looking for that optimum jet stream, fog/low cloud at destination therefore plan fuel for alternates based on either commercial or fuel reasons.
So, apart from the fringe benefits and the regular wings ceremonies at the Office (assuming they're still held there) think to yourself "Is the grass always greener on the other side?"
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