Generally when you get the experience to move to the airlines like EK etc most pilots are looking for lifestyle, upgrades and other things may be secondary considerations.
What lifestyle do you get with the minimum eight days off each month? working 100 hours plus through the middle of the night? Having to ask permission to leave Dubai?
Roster stability, forget it! By the end of the month your roster will bear no resemblance to the roster that you bid for and were awaded at the start of the month.
The latest blow is despite being rostered for 100 hours or so of flying, instead of well earned days off, seemingly frivolous Reserve days or standbys are inserted into the roster because they no longer count towards your monthly productivity pay.
Ideally I would like to work in order to live the life I want, not the other way round living around work, constantly called by crewing on days off and trips always changing. Think hard
Last edited by Mistah Kurtz; 5th February 2005 at 16:40.