2 days a week off? Sorry mate but no chuffing chance here buddy. The fom states 7 days off minimum a month. And 24 in 3 months. Well your 2 weeks off is called rotation here. But they also count as days off so you get just 7 days a month when you are here. And thats only if you are here for a full month. If you take your 2 weeks rotation across 2 months, then it all counts as days off so you are effectively entitled to no more days off that month. You do get a 36 hour break every 7 days, but as this can be from say 0900 on monday to 2100 on tuesday it doesn't mean its a day off. So during your 6 weeks you're only going to get a 36 hour break every 7 days, or 1 day a week. or in other terms during a 6 week work rotation you may only get 5 days off, ie 1 every 7 days.
The worst thing is going on rotation on say the 8th to the 22nd. They can make you work the full 8 days until you leave, the 36 hours off they owe you would then be part of your rotation, then when you come back they can make you work 6 days straight and then give you 1 day off (36 hour rule). and thats it for that month.
oh and if you think of going sick after 20 sectors in 5 days all at different times of the day because you've collapsed in fatigue, then they call it a day off and you're straight back into 6 days working when you report back for duty. As i say, utopia it ain't.
In answer to the 14 days off, yes you do get 14 days straight. But the Paris flight leaves at 0100 and rocks up in paris around 8 am. add on the tavelling home and thats your first day gone. the return flight leaves paris at 1400 and arrives 0700, you can't work the day of arrival so its your day number 14, so you need to leave paris on day 13, so if you're travelling from england you have to leave around 8am on day 13, which gives you only 11 days clear at home. Clear as mud? You have to look at it all carefully.
Last edited by ia1166; 19th Jun 2008 at 10:56.