Originally Posted by
The Merovingian
Try not break it down into weekly flying. It varies on how busy the network is, however an average week of work it's common to be flying a two/ three sector nights and occasionally a 4 sector may be chucked in there for good measure.
The sectors are normally short and the waiting time between each sector can be rather long, anywhere between 1 ½ - 4 hours, which eats into your duty period. Add into the mix you night stop 98% of the time and those are the main reasons why you tend not to accrue many flying hours.
To give an example, you may fly 30-35 per month (busy), your duty hours are in the region of 250-300+ hours.
A really quiet month, you'll have a loads of home/ airport standbys and may only end up flying 10-20 hours with the duty hours in the region of about 100-150 hours.
Thanks for those clarifications. I honestly had no idea.
Is this typical for all European cargo operations (I guess DHL UK doesn't do long haul?)
Just for info could you post a typical week schedule (ie. flight, wait, next sector, rest)? Doesn't need to be too specific, just to give a ballpark idea to the uneducated.