Jamieboy:
A-320 roster is the most UNFAIR & TIRING & UNDERPAID one for the Duty we do perform!
-Minimum Days off (8..9/month)
-Most of the request Denied (days off...), if you request days off, you might get stby duty instead..
-You roster sometime looks like a mess :NO general rules at all: flight at night..in the morning in the evening... 1 days off here ..2 days off there...7 days of duty in a row sometime...
-85 hours/month duty..150H+(you get paid for the schedule block time not the duty time: 33U$/hours).
-Totally unfair: Most of the training flights happen between 7 am and midnight : the time frame between midnight and 7 am seems to be a not Fly time for training as well a the airspace beyond Muscat (indian FIR seems to be a no-fly zone for them!)
-Layover 320: NBO-DAR-MLE-TXL-BUD-VIE-BCN-DME :those are the good one(and with the highest meal allowance) dedicated to "office" people and training captain most of the time..
Other than that ;KTM-COK-CLC-MAA-DEL-TRV-BLR-HYD dedicated to regular pilots.(always have your mosquito repellant spray in your suitcase)
-Fleet transfer (if you haven't been blacklisted by the CEO for any stupid silly reason)...4..5 years at least.
-IMHO CPT 320 is the worse (roster...)even compared to F/O.
Hope i didn't brake down your motivation to join the QR 320 fleet as CPT.
Last edited by loc22550; 1st Feb 2011 at 15:32.