Like Snails I fly a Hawker 800 for Netjets….. however we are the poor cousins at Netjets Middle East on Honeywell XP’s not the Proline magic!. We too have a fixed rotation of 35 days on 31 off, the company provides travel to and from wherever you need to meet the plane and then you are on the road.
Days can be anything, a long day Dubai- Istanbul- London or Jeddah – Kuwait – Jeddah with a wait on the ground, which could be in a top hotel or if the turn is not too long then there are always Jepp updates to do! Or it could be a short sector like Naples to Genoa.
Last tour I had a couple days in Istanbul, five in Bahrain, four in Dubai, 3 and then 2 in Riyadh, a few in Jeddah and a couple in Dammam, then home again.
Like Reddo we also move the bags which can be an issue with a Hawker in the middle east and brief the pax, but we don’t have to look after them because we carry a flight attendant on every flight!
The only down side is outside of duty rest we are on a constant stby waiting for the phone call for the next move which may be operating or maybe paxing somewhere to relieve or replace a crew.
