OK, here's my July roster. I'd give you my June one, but there was a lot of time off, including a week in Delhi, which is fun to do but not to read!
I came back from a six-day LGW-MCO(Orlando)-MAN-MCO-LGW trip at 0900(local) Saturday morning, and made it home to Essex about midday. Slept through to Sunday morning. On Thursday 5th I have to go to Gatwick for an afternoon doing smoke evacuations and playing with fire extinguishers - this'll go on to 2100. Friday morning (6th) I operate the VS41 LGW-SFO (San Francisco). On arrival at SFO (2320 UK time), the whole crew (20 of us!) get on a Continental flight to Las Vegas, arriving at 0220 UK time. On Sunday night (8th) we operate the VS44 LAS-LGW, getting back at about midday Monday 9th. I shall sleep through to the Tuesday morning!
Next trip is Saturday 14th, when I hop a BA shuttle to manchester to position for the VS75 MAN-MCO on the Sunday. For some reason, I've got a few nights in Orlando, operating back overnight 18th/19th. Sleep to 20th. On Tuesday 24th I have my annual SEP assessment and refresher (Safety Equipment and Procedures), then on the next day I operate the VS39 LHR-ORD (Chicago), returning overnight the next day and arriving Heathrow 0700 Friday 27th.
The last trip of thr month is Monday 30th, the VS47 to Toronto from Gatwick, returning on the morning of the 1st August.
That's a fairly typical roster, although there are much busier ones around. Mine is 64 hours flying time; 100 isn't unheard of (but our contract maximum is 750, so 70 monthly should be about average).
Want to try it? Get yourself 2500 hours of useful airline or military time and come and talk to us. The minimum (according to Virgin's website) is 1500 hours, but I know of no-one who's got in with that little. I had around 8000 hours when I started with Virgin.
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