Originally Posted by
Noleave
96 Hours and 16 unpaid hours for 2 days of ground school.
30 days of leave with more than 20 of them forced.
Way too much work, way too much greed from the company.
Originally Posted by
The Outlaw
Reminds me of a Monty python skit of the "Four Yorkshireman" and "living in a shoebox in the middle of the road".
"Well we had it tough.
We had to scrape the frost off the wings, load the freight ourselves, help the maintenance guys, clean the aircraft, fly an NDB approach to minimums in crosswind with no autoland, keep a gun in the aircraft for bears, fly overweight and get paid minimal wages."
"But you know, we were happy in those days even though we were poor."
"Because we were poor. My old man used to say 'Hours don't bring you happiness son"
"He was right. I was happier then and we had nothing. We used to have to sleep in our cockpit seats".
"Cockpit seats? You were lucky to have cockpit seats to sleep in. We used to sleep in a crew rest area with bunks, two at a time and you could hear the toilet flush and occasionally, the other guy snored"
"You were lucky to have a crew rest area near the toilet. We used to have to sleep in the OVERHEAD crew rest area in the ceiling with no extra noise and the beds angled to compensate for the nose-up attitude of the aircraft."
"Oh, we used dream of resting in the in an overhead crew rest area! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to rest in a water tank in the rubbish storage area. We got woke up every few hours to go back to the cockpit by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! Crew rest area? Huh."
"You were lucky to have the water tank. There were a hundred and fifty of us sleeping in economy class"
"Premium Economy?" "Yes" "You were lucky. We used to rest in an rolled up inflight magazine in the waste tank. We had to wake up and clean the magazine, eat an extra first class meal, sit in the right seat for several hours and when the second crew rest came, the captain would thrash us to sleep with his belt."
"We were evicted from our crew rest area; we 'ad to go and sleep in the wheel well".
"Luxury,
We had to wake up a 11 pm in our company paid villa, push the company limo to work and then lick the runway clean with our tongues prior to taxiing our A380, pay the airline owner a 40,000 dollar bond for the right to work, be on duty 26 hours a day due to time zone crossings, eat our special meals, work with 14-20 young exotic stewardesses, have layovers in in the world's premium cities and when we got to the hotel, the maids would drive us crazy with their incessant loud talk and slamming of doors."
"But you try and tell the young pilot's that today... and they won't believe ya'."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo