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Old 5th Sep 2010, 23:06
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European Regional Airline, unionized, union contract.

8-9 days off min per month, min yearly average 10/month

days off must be scheduled as 3 blocks of 53 hrs and one block of 60 hours min, with two such blocks to be scheduled as a 113 hr "superblock" once per quarter.

5 weeks vacation (consisting of 25 working days and 10 of the above off days), increasing to 6 weeks as the hairline recedes

all days off set in stone. Company pays 1,75 days worth if you "sell" a day off but this is - mostly rightfully - frowned upon by the works council.

duties may not be extended by more than 1 hour (2 hours after 2100LT) (i.e. a 7:00 reporting time may be changed to 6:00 but not to 5:55). If, leaving homebase, a delay of more than 1:45 beyond your scheduled check-out is planned, you may refuse to even leave)

Very strict but sometimes too good. Sometimes especially cabin crew seems to have a hard time judging what changes to accept beyond contractual obligations and refuse extensions as a principle even if they don't have any private appointments after check-out and could easily help the company.

About 50% of duties are single days with 2-4 legs, remainder are mostly 2-, sometimes 3-day layovers. (This being subject to change as the company timetable will be renovated for the winter season.)
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