Originally Posted by I Just Want To Fly
Any current crew have a sample roster. I'm really interested to know what to expect. Probably best to PM me, so I can provide an email adress.
Thanks
It's not possible to provide sample rosters as our rosters are viewed on screen and can't be emailed.
But, to give you an idea, if you are coming to LGW (Gatwick) you can expect to be working mainly 4 sector days working around about 120-130 hours per month. This might not sound like a lot of hours, but when you take into account pre-flight and post flight duties and 20-35 minute turnarounds, this does mean around 21 days of flying with the vast majority of your day spent at work.
It is always hard for new recruits as they really do get hammered with their rosters as they have the fresh new 900 hours to play with - if you have been there a couple of years like myself, you can only be rostered the amount of hours that you had in that month the previous year.
Remember - the above is speaking from an LGW perspective, smaller bases such as EMA or GLA & EDI will be different!!!
And following on from Swashbucklers comments above, I really do wonder what (s)he expected when they joined easyJet. When I was on my initial training course, the trainers made a point of constantly saying "You will be working hard, you will not be having regular nightstops, you will be having to clean the aircraft" etc, so they do let you know constantly that the job is NOT GLAMOROUS and that if you want glamour & nightstops, you should apply to another airline.