You guys have to be kidding
Agent Mulder and Bazzamundi…
Let me see if I understand you…
You applied for a job as a pilot flying for an overseas airline yet your not happy at being away from home!!(bad career call)
You describe the new JFK trips as a ten day extravaganza and crap as well when they don’t look bad at all ,remember you are paid to fly not to be at home .You leave on the first day and are home on the 10th so in reality you are only gone for 9 nights .If your post was released to the media and people read you describing that 10 day JFK trip as crap you would be laughed out of town.
You are lucky enough to be doing a job that you enjoy (or have you grown bored with flying now) and as you have admitted paid significantly for it as well. A lot of people ..no that’s wrong , 99.9% of people would give their right arm to be paid extremely well to do a job they enjoy and instead put up with mind numbing repetitive boredom to support their families and pay a mortgage.
You complain about getting less than 26 days off a roster yet most people who work 9 to 5 only get 16 days off in 8 weeks and some less than that.
By the sounds of it you are either a junior captain or F/O obviously on the 400 and the trip will not be as popular as the previous JFK’s probably because the overtime involved is less than the traditional direct SYD/LAX or MEL/LAX and that is one of the things that you were looking forward to.
If you are slipping for 24 hours in JFK what was the actual ambit claim or request from the company and what was the response of your new AIPA leadership?
I thought that the previous slip was only 24 hours as well and remember at least you guys are slipping in JFK.
Over the last 30 years I have heard on too many occasions about the hours limitations you guys are on and want yet now you are telling us you want to get the work all over and done with and spend most of the time at home.
One senior 400 driver told me about how great it would be to get the 777 and do 5 day FRA trips!!! “Think of the time off at home” he said…All I could think of is spending 20 hours in an aluminium tube with people complaining about the IFE not working and fights breaking out because of the time entombed in an uncomfortable seat.
Well there is a solution ..you could transfer to shorthaul and fly 737’s or take a pay cut and fly the airborne croissant and you would spend a lot more time at home.Of course it is not as glamorous or well paid but you would see more of your families.
You cannot be serious about going back to the 767’s compared with a 400..short term memory problems here Mulder…remember the hours and 2 pilot operations and tech crew rest next to a baby bassinet..
Think about how lucky you guys have it and at least your new union is not just saying yes to the company verbatim.it could be worse if you were a S/O based in Singapore for years