Beware Flyglobespan
Absolutely true. It's about time someone said something. All of those people waiting for a crap contract with only 15 days leave, think again. The company is massively disorganised. They have zero regard for crew welfare. The crew are getting pushed to do extremes of duty times, sometimes over 24 hours with several sectors positioning after a flight. Sometimes they stay at crap hotels with no food available.
Listen to this if you do not believe me, and check the Flyglobespan website to confirm it: The new schedule for the Cape Town flight is as follows: MAN-CPT 15:25z - 06:00z, and then minimum rest in CPT for a 21:35z check in for the return flight the same day!. Two 12 hour night flights. Excellent.
The report time for these ETOPS longhaul flights is a ridiculous 1 hour before departure, just to make it legal. Although, even that doesn't really help because there isn't even a proper rest area onboard, so it is making a mockery of CAP 371.
MAN-Toronto: Crew fly out to Toronto, hang around on the aircraft for 3 hours and then position back, sometimes in Economy. Duty time 20 hours through the night!
Toronto-Man outbound crew coach down to Cardiff which takes 4-5 hours, hang around in the airport for a couple of hours and then fly to Toronto with Zoom. Duty time 19 hours.
All because the company do not care and will not pay for a direct flight. I even heard a story that D********* takes a personal interest in crew not staying too long in a hotel down route, in case they forget they are at work and start thinking he is paying for their holidays.
The GLA-SFB flight is going on a B737-800, and they haven't even told the pax. Outrageous.
They are constantly chopping and changing the schedules so the crew are constantly dealing with pissed off punters.
The rosters are getting later and later. The xmas rosters have only just come out!!!
If I were looking for a job at the moment I would wait for Zoom to get going.
Last edited by Mr Gammon Flaps; 20th December 2006 at 11:17.