....it still pays to 'manage' what's going on. Catering, cleaning, getting the plane ready, requesting fuel and the plethora of paperwork are just some of the daily chores. Not to mention last minute schedule changes, eg. doing 4 sectors instead of 2, going to Liege instead of Nice, what!!?? and the general buggering about that seems to happen quite often!
That sounds extraordinarily like a Low Cost airline I know!
....those airline guys that do prosper in this side of professional aviation and I've seen a few, seem to have the corporate pilot mindset already.
That's exactly it Crosswind.
