Marlboro_2002, once in a while we do get night stops and sometimes we are sent to a different base to operate out of it. Could be positioning out on day 1, work at the "foreign" base on days 2 + 3 + 4 and then position home on day 5, for instance.
I think the 4 weeks of random rostering is to cater for people on leave and such, but I can't really remember what the reasoning behind it is. I tend not to listen to managament too much as no manager is a truthteller
Metro man, in my two years in the company, the only call I have ever gotten on a day off from the company was because I had requested to have some travel arrangements changed when going to the sim and the call was just to ask me what I preferred
When called out of stand by, I have occasionally been asked how fast I can get to the airport, but I don't really mind that as I just do it at my own pace (live ½ hour away - the blessings of a non-London base
) and get no grief from the company as long as I am there within 90 minutes. More often than not, I get the call to tell me that I have a duty in more than two hours from the time of the call, which is nice