Fwiw, whilst being an admittedly very high bid FZ Captain, my schedule (
following some thoughtful bidding) through to the end of October looks as follows:
24/09 - RestDay
25/09 - DayOff
26/09 - Afternoon Flight (
medium)
27/09 - DayOff
28/09 - DayOff
29/09 - DayOff
30/09 - DayOff
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01/10 - DayOff
02/10 - DayOff
03/10 - DayOff
04/10 - DayOff
05/10 - DayOff
06/10 - Day Flight (
long)
07/10 - DayOff
08/10 - Day Flight (
long)
09/10 - DayOff
10/10 - DayOff
11/10 - Day Flight (
long)
12/10 - DayOff
13/10 - DayOff
14/10 - DayOff
15/10 - DayOff
16/10 - DayOff
17/10 - Day Flight (
long)
18/10 - Afternoon Flight (
medium)
19/10 - RestDay
20/10 - Day Flight (
medium)
21/10 - DayOff
22/10 - Day Flight (
medium)
23/10 - DayOff
24/10 - Day Flight (
medium)
25/10 - DayOff
26/10 - DayOff
27/10 - DayOff
28/10 - DayOff
29/10 - Leave (
2 weeks; to be followed by 4x 'Requested DayOff')
With one exception (
flight on 24/10) I got everything that I bid for. Plus that I get to sleep every night in my own bed, and have zero jet lag!
This time last year, Big JimV & KennyG (
our FltOps VP's over at FZ) saw a problem coming and headed it off at the pass, with implementation of with PBS!
