West Atlantic
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From: Bonvoy Marriott
What is the point of including day off payments. Just to make the salary looks better or are you expected to accept working on your off days?
WOWO is pretty good roster. But not sunday to saturday. In this case you never have a full weekend off.
WOWO is pretty good roster. But not sunday to saturday. In this case you never have a full weekend off.
Last edited by SaulGoodman; 20th September 2019 at 02:14.
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The weekend situation is much better than it looks. A lot of the duties don't start until early Monday morning while others finish late on Friday. Also if you volunteer to do a slip-shift you work Thursday to Wednesday.
When you take 7 days of leave you don't fly for 21 days. Week off, week leave, week off and you can do that three times in a year. Also being cargo not passenger leave during school summer holidays is not usually a problem.
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From: A little south of the "Black Sheep" brewery
If you are an airline pilot, what is a 'weekend'??!! Many pilots that I know never have weekends off, especially during busy periods. The last two posters give the idea that the actual weekend situation is really quite good.
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£4800 after tax is about the average monthly salary for a Captain. Weeks on are often not a full 7 days so weekends off are more common if that’s your thing. Lots of time off and often options to sell days off so if you prefer money over time then that’s a winner too.
For me having the ability to plan my life more than one month ahead for the first time in my career trumps earning more money elsewhere. Also the way the leave works means that I effectively have 12 weeks leave per year plus week on off, with that in mind the salary begins to look not too bad at all.
For me having the ability to plan my life more than one month ahead for the first time in my career trumps earning more money elsewhere. Also the way the leave works means that I effectively have 12 weeks leave per year plus week on off, with that in mind the salary begins to look not too bad at all.
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From: A little south of the "Black Sheep" brewery
So you are not an airline pilot then? Most airline pilots do not know what a weekend is. (Other than that those are the days that they are most likely to be rostered to fly!)
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Very hard to guestimate because it varies based on company expansion, prior experience, & performance. I joined as an FO with about 8000hr total and 5000hr in command of other jets. It took me 7 months from final line check as FO to final line check as Capt. However, I was lucky and the company was rapidly expanding at the time. At the moment I would guess the minimum is about a year.
Hope this helps.
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West Atlantic trips are six or seven days long and crew pairings normally stay the same for the whole week, so the interview is likely to focus on personality as well as the standard questions.
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