At the end of the day you still have to have 9 Days off per month and if you place those wisely you can have higher achievement rates. I was talking to one of the senior managers about the bid and the trouble is surrounding expectation. Most people are bidding for weekends off and that simply means that more people are being disappointed. If you are quite open about destinations and go for the days off as your priority you may achieve a greater %. Yes NBO, LUD and when it comes across ACC do not negate time off there is nothing stopping you bidding for 2 days off or utilising leave days. You say you did a DEN had a day off and then did another DEN. The present Worldwide crew do two such flights without a day off called a Back to Back so we will fly to say Chicago nightstop fly back to Heathrow nightstop, fly to Montreal night stop and then back to Heathrow. Worldwide crew do that without a day off in the middle. Our pilot colleagues also create their own Back to Backs without a day off in between so that they can achieve a greater number of days off in one go later in the month.
Some people are achieving what they want with their CARMEN bids and able to commiute from far afield.
Last edited by prism; 6th Jun 2011 at 09:47.