It's not a bad gig if you stay away from the politics and whiners. The terms of the contract from Bookfield is black and white.
TDY at other bases where you can actually unpack your luggage? I would take that over doing the bag drag through different airline terminals five days a week along with unreliable hotel shuttles.
For every scheduled block hour flown, you are paid. Now how complicated or abusive can that be?
Five days on... four days off. How complicated is that?
One full month off plus additional days off during the year. Is that so bad?
All right... you have to bring your own food and grog on the jet. But at the end of the day aren't you eating what you want? Yeah... on the flip side of the coin it would be nice if they threw in one or two bottles of unopened water... and paid for uniforms. But wan't that a given known when signing on the dotted line?
After all, are there any crewmembers being held against their own free will who think If life is so bad at RYR and they want to jump ship?