How many block hours in 2000?

[Hot Wings]

Rather than the usual "how much did you earn last year?" topic, I thought it would be interesting to find out how many block hours you did in 2000.

I'm an F/O on 744s at BA and did 768 block hours in 2000. Not too high considering that 1/3 of the 744 pilots at BA are close to the 900 hours limit (half spent horizontal!).

Please state who you fly for so that we can see which airlines are "abusing" their employees.

[Capt. XXXX]

I work for the White Hatters, and they worked me a whopping 600 hours in 2000. Ahh, this is living!

[FourGreens]

Luxair F-50 FO - 547 blocktime !! Beat that !

[driver1]

KLMuk F100 f/o a mind blowing 415 hours, and prob another 100 positioning!! :) :)

[Diesel8]

Spent 4 months doing training, 634 block for the year.

[737]

Ryanair, 762 hours, no over-nights and amazingly no positioning!

[Hung start]

SAS MD80/90, 564 block hours.

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[N2000]

SFO BA B747-400

In 2000: 866 hours

[Track]

550hrs B737-800, Transavia airlines(charter)
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[A320 SFO]

758.35hrs on A320's with Cyprus Airways.
Europe, Middle-East. 45 Night Stops in Y2K

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Low Energy..Low Profile

[outofdutyhours]

G/A PILOT BASED EUROPE
507hrs block to block
345 days based in a bloody Novotel

[Capt. XXXX]

Doh, and I thought I had it good! Any jobs going at KLM UK??

[lothar mathäus]

800 hrs,approx 100 overnights
fo lufthansa

[Hung start]

Lothar, are you flying short or longhaul?
Is that an average number of hours for you guys??
As you see, I did 564 hours on shorthaul for SAS, and thats pretty much average!! The reason that I´m asking, is that we are now demanding a pretty sharp payrise, since we´ve found out by using Lufthansa union payscale comparison, that we are lagging behing other european majors.. Thing is, if you guys work that much more, then I better understand the higher salary in LH.
Sorry for going off the subject....

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[TE RANGI]

Spanair MD-80 based PMI.

Year 2000 block hours: 718 (plus another 121 hrs deadhead)

[3holer]

VARIG LONG HAUL CAPT 758 HRS 40 HRS POSITIONING PROBABLY 100 OVERNIGHTS

[Hung start]

Hello 3Holer. Como vai?? Could you, some day, send me a mail as I´ve lost your e mail adress in a big computercrash a few months ago.
Flew with you guys GRU-CPH last week again. Comfortable crewseats :) . Would you say thanks to Ribeiro Lima, as I didn´t have a chance???
Write me when you´re at our base in CPH.
Rgds, Hung start..

[turn]

960 hours for Air Berlin in Germany. Anybody more ?

[invinoveritas]

in 2000, 720 hours of 737 out of lhr. but if we wnat to talk numbers then how about the total i amassed in 1997- 1200 hours (and to think i was also trying to give up smoking)

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now is it the wine or the truth i'm after?

[Avro'ansome]

872.8hrs from 01 March 2000 to 01 March 2001.
BAe146 European shorthaul. Average 16 O/nights per month. Christ I'm overworked!!

[Son Of Piltdown]

Barry 737 from LHR 12 months to date:

527 Flying hours.
1381 Duty Hours.
19 Positioning sectors.
74 Standby duties.
124 Days Off.
6 Weeks leave.
67 Night stops.
(Bid preference minimum night stops).

High duty hours due to long turn rounds and multi sector days.

Lots of roster changes.

'Bout average I suppose.

[Red Snake]

385 hours flying. More days than I can remember in hotels (not nights - that's when we flew). Eu. freight operator. I don't do it anymore.

Now working for a UK regional. Flights hours are higher - about double - but, oh the joys of sleeping at night at home!

[northern boy]

A320 Fo Virgin Sun.
600hr in 2000
2-3 nightstops/month during summer.
Mostly longish sectors LCA TFS DLM etc.Worked out to about 3 or 4 days per week. Sometimes less.

[Stampe]

Britannia 738 429 block hours over 116 sectors in Jan-Dec 2000 hardly any of it from home base so lots of time away/allowances and loads of interesting night stops.Pay per flying hour we do pretty well ,life style I,m not so sure about.Lifes never perfect and "tomorrow is another day".

[shakespeare]

890 hours in 2000. Up to 6 sectors on some days with the average around 3 to 4. Quite a good deal was also training. In my opinion this is pretty hard work so I am interested in what you long haul guys think. Surely you do not log flight hours for time spent in your bunk, as some Asian carriers do? Being realistic, lying down hardly has anything to do with the actual operation the a/c does it? I would be interested in your opinions.

[Hot Wings]

Shakespeare,

I think that you're working bloody hard! I hope, for your sake, that you don't do that many hours every year.

As for bunk time, at BA time in the bunk does count towards your 900 hours maximum per year. It may or may not have alot to do with flying the aircraft - it just depends what you are dreaming about! Seriously though, long range operations are only made possible (and legal) by the provision of adequate horizontal rest facilities for the crew.

[F/O Junior]

A330/A320 for Swissair

380 hrs A330
290 hrs A330
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670 hrs total

Around 120 nightstops

[BJBATMAN]

About 1200hrs this year. Longest leg is about 3hrs. Lots of landings and approches.

[Slasher]

1277 on 737s. Real bludge year comparatively speaking.

[Milo]

Britannia. 750 hours in the previous year.

[Alloy]

Monarch. 810 hours.

[LeadingEdge]

approx.650/CSA Czech Airlines

[Pandora]

<360 block hrs due crap fleet planning by managemant. Please let them get those extra aircraft soon.

[ronchonner]

i did

400h in 2000, on cessna 150,seneca,and some small turboprop in USA.bad paid , maybe 6000US dollars.

i need a serious job!!!!
FAA ATP pilot ,european citizen

[nohat]

I also work for the white hatters based in LGW. 414 block hours a year flown for the last two years. Never worked harder than 625 hours a year,only because the powers that be can't pull their thumbs out and sort out crewing/rostering ect. I spend all my time taxi's or hotac. Not a sensible use of a very expensive resource. It must be all my fault.I must remember to ask for a paycut.

[Gominder]

Last year I have flown 944 hrs Blocktime on 737-400/800 for Air Berlin. I did work on 162 days, so average flight time per day is around 5,8 hrs.
On the other hand, I had lots of Standby-duties and more of these crazy "Available". If you have not been called for duties (flight or stby) the day before until 10 pm, you got OFF.

Happy landings !

[f/spninx]

easyjet 760 hrs, 60 nightstops, 200 roster changes.

[fast cruiser]

British Midland

F/O Fokker 100

510 hrs a year average

[Wander]

766 hrs A320/1 with Air 2000, FO.
The good- 1) two standby callouts all year.
2) Next to no roster changes.
3) Two nightstops all year.
The bad- 1) Heavy summer, 90hrs/mth average
2) 6/7 nightflights/ month. (back at 7-9am)
The ugly- me after the nightflights!