If you read my first post, I have highlighted how poor eastern t and cs are compared to flybe and mentioned the redunduncies. But I explained the upside of why people do work for eastern for significant periods of time. And yes it is vastly different to even two years ago. At some bases captains and cabin spend a lot of time away from base in hotels and get a lot of changes, but Aberdeen is pretty stable, if your on the scs operation and based in Aberdeen it's pretty solid, at least in my experience. On the scs op the earliest you start is six and you'll be done by 1230 at the latest on earlies, lates start around 1115 and finish by 1730 at the latest, on a very rare occasion you maybe held till 1930, all Monday to Friday with standby at weekends in case there was bad weather in the week or they need to evacuate a rig. It's a laid back lifestyle, tell me who doesn't want that, the sacrifice is the money. Apart from the odd bad day with troublesome passengers for the cabin crew everyone has fun at work. Like I said before the wage and lack of pension could be considered insulting but you make the most of it, when things pick up some of us will move on some people will stay. It's a job which right now I'm grateful I'm still in.
Last edited by PaulW; 17th August 2009 at 11:24.