PMASHA, my May roster has me performing like an airbourne yoyo between East and West. Is this what you mean by a "constructed roster". The theory of pinging backwards and forwards on a bit of elastic pinned to the Bouncy Castle somehow keeps my body clock glued to DXB time? If so please please try it, it doesnt work, it actually destroys any chance of a rest pattern rhthym and actively fatigues as if designed to do so. Brilliant!

PMASHA - You are clearly clutching at straws. You haven't acknowledged the points about the swaps being legal and even more restrictive than the roster build. Yet for some reason now, it takes 72 hours to work out if it is legal. I could fly to the moon in that time.

So when you can't defend the eswap fiasco you switch to trying to defend roster compression when leave is assigned. Clearly you are not a pilot. I'm sure I am not the only one who has worked 60+hrs in a month where I was assigned 2 weeks leave. Yes PMASHA that is only 2 ULRs. Even by my poor maths thats the equivalent of over 120hrs in a normal month. But according to you that doesn't happen and its only a rumour that roster compression exists, and that I must of dreamed it.

I would strongly suggest you are the one who is "not knowing".

and yes, it's "all swaps":ugh:

PMASHA - to your first point. If there are pilots who bid stretches of days OFF and then call sick fatigued then deal with them as individuals. Making blanket rules is counterproductive.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, if this is the case then the company and rostering must ensure that they do not do the same with roster compression - yet that is EXACTLY what rostering does.

Pro Rata basis?? What is the pro rata value? If we have, for arguments sake, an exact 4 week month and a pilot has 2 weeks of leave then in the remaining 2 weeks he should HALF a regular roster. Anything above that amount should be overtime. But that NEVER happens.

Worse, they assign 4 or 7 days of leave and the pilot still flies 90-95 hours? In other words--company roster compression.

To put it bluntly - it's unsafe.

PMASHA - I suspect their name is a contraction of Pilot Masher. Says it all...

PMASHA

sorry your time is up here, back to Costa!
0h forgot its 14:15 so hurry to get home

It's Friday so he´s off today. He was also off yesterday due to the company recognized UAE public holiday, so a nice string of three days off, able to go for a short break somewhere with the family. That rarely happens to us nowadays.

lospilotos:
oh yes, I forgot plus he has 4 regular off days as well so brings his string to 7 days.
Off to TRV to see his family.

Guys and Gals don't waste your time, PMASHA has the typical arrogant EK manager mentality! Always right, never wrong and remember its all our fault, always!

PMASHA utter nonsense they manages to give me 70 hours block after 14 days leave, you call that pro-rata

PMASHA is a Costa dweller.

I doubt he is a manager or a costa dweller

Just an over excited employee

Please ignore him and don't inflate his ignorance

He or she is on Talk Central right now blowing smoke up management's ar*e but will be back here to revert and do the meaningful real soon.