Bazzmundi
“Happened once early on in my career with an 18 month old son”
“Nowadays, even the dog takes a while to forgive me now when I arrive home from a week long trip.”
So, let me get this straight. You are denigrating the Jetstar guys for voting to crew an aircraft that will do really crappy flying with long boring overnights that will be detrimental to the pilots family life. Because the “novelty” will wear off, you are suggesting that they don’t do it.
And yet, by your own admission, they will be undertaking an operation that you yourself have done for a considerable time and apparently still do to this day.
I have to ask the question – If you are unable to negotiate a better rostering practice within mainline after all this time, then why on earth do you expect the pilots at a startup to be able to?