Originally Posted by
Alexander de Meerkat
Lord Spandex Masher - I think you probably work for FlyBe, .
I used to, yes. I think your analysis of Flybe is spot on. They can't even make a profit when guys are doing 24 sectors a week in two of the most efficient aircraft in the world. It's top heavy and appears to have its head firmly wedged in the sand. A roster like mine wouldn't be viable even if they'd let me get away with so little work!
I also agree with you about easyJet, in fact I got as far as turning down an interview with them in favour of my first command, I would have been financially a bit better off (they had proper contracts back then)
but I would have done twice as much work as I have since that point - this year I've done 350 flying hours and a smidge over 1100 hours duty. I would put that kind of work/lifestyle balance way higher up the pecking order than 4 sector days, 5 days in a row and you can definitely count me out of the long haul/M25 rat race/London nightmare.