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Old 16th May 2006, 15:43
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ILS26L
 
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yes, £1200 after tax that is.
Turroncin is right, minimum rest applies between duty shifts, especially during the busy summer where this is a norm. You must live within 90 minutes commuting time from the Beehive (GB Main office next to Gatwick airport). So basically, you can do a 12 hour day, followed by 12 hours rest, then another 12 hour duty, and so on... (this often happens, and many crew moan about the fact that they have 2 or 3 long flights in a row, i.e. TFS, PFO, HER, ACE, etc...)
so obviously, if your commuting time is 90 mins, this would mean you'd get 9 hours at your home. Once again, this often happens, but isn't a daily occurrence.
As Turroncin has previously mentioned, you are lumbered with all the long flights when you join as most of the crew there are reaching their 900 hours anual limit.
There is definately a strong need for crew at GB, as there are certain flights this summer which remain uncrewed. It's a shame there's such a high turnover, good elements leave monthly, but then again, this is mostly due to poor management which leads to low morale of the staff within the company.
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