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Old 15th Aug 2008, 10:25
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Yes the rostering department is great and you do get your requested days off most of the time, but there are pilots (very senior on the F100) who have done the right thing by the company (ie work on their day off) and then they get scr@@ed over. In one case a pilot had to pay for his own airfare (full fare) back home, due to the company failing to stick to an agreement made.

Agree the F100 and F50 are great aircraft, Flt Ops and engineering are great, but talk to FA's and see what they had to give away to get a pay rise (and they still get paid less than regional FA's).

Most of the senior pilots refer to company as GA with jets and thats probably the best description for the company. Don't go there thinking you are in a major airline because you are not.

Remember 6 years ago there was only one jet charter operator (NJS) in Australia. Now there are 8 operators (NJS, Skywest, Skyair, Air North, Network, Ozjet, Our Airline and Alliance), plus who knows what Virgin may do with their E-jets, bidding for the same work.
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