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drag king 28th Dec 2012 17:00

Narrow Runaway
 
Narrow Runaway are you on a 7X, PH-reg by any chance? Your "average day at the office" sounds very familiar to the one I've heard from a crew who visited this sad town here up north! Lucky me I am leaving too! :}

flyingcamel 28th Dec 2012 17:01

Judging by what I saw - Air2000 in the late 90's-early 2000s (those guys partied pretty hard down route!)
Failing that Singapore Airlines Cargo on the A scale that was, or as someone mentioned Fedex on the triple is a hard gig to better it would seem.

I just want out of the relentless ****e that is LoCo.

Any half decent ME outfit will do me these days...............

sorvad 28th Dec 2012 18:47

well.... at the risk of attracting a tirade of negativity from my colleagues, 18 days off a month on a base with CX isn't too shabby

Fg Off Kite 28th Dec 2012 19:28

Does Kylie own an aeroplane?

redsnail 28th Dec 2012 20:53

She doesn't according to my colleagues. :ok:

Chuck Dung 28th Dec 2012 21:27

Lead solo pilot for the US Navy Blue Angels. The guy who sneaks up on the audience from out of sight low and in afterburner, after the narrator has beckoned the audience to keep a close eye on the formation as they do a slow roll over the runway. The noise and startle factor from the crowd is awesome!

Then, of course, are the adoring fans, the pretty girls and awestruck kids lining up at the fence after the show is over to get autographs and to get close to the Navy studs in their skin tight flight suits.

The added bonus is being around other very good pilots, fantastic old and new aircraft, and the overall atmosphere of the air show environment. What a gig!

Dan Winterland 29th Dec 2012 03:33

Any airline which pays maximum money for minimum hours.

BMed Boy 29th Dec 2012 03:41

Black BMW
 
Here Here,
Nothing exists like BMed now. Only airline to have First class on a 320.
The days when we could open a few more bottles to take off with us in Tbilisi plus the left over cheese for the room party. The clanking of bottles heralded our passage to the crew bus.
Exciting nights out in clubs where guns were a regular sight. Trying to persuade the girls it was not a good idea to accept a lift from some nice men in a blacked out BMW!
Some fantastic food too, it really was organic as they grew nothing else. I've still not tasted tomatoes and cucumber quite like you can get there to accompany sturgeon grilled on a wood fire.
Beirut too was so exciting. Classic when the BBC reporter in his flack jacket on the roof of the hotel asked the girls to move out of sight for a couple of minutes as their bikini clad sunbathing was ruining his shot.
Good luck to all wherever you are now.

DirectCF 29th Dec 2012 06:31

I'd go for Air France. But as this would significantly reduce my life expectancy, I'd rather go to Qantas :}

redsnail 29th Dec 2012 09:46

The Qantas of old yes, the new Qantas? No. :{

JB007 29th Dec 2012 10:33

Excalibur in the 90's! With Captain L as my chief pilot!

But more than happy at the mo, B757/B767 short/long-haul to India/Far East based in the Maldives!

Beavis and Butthead 29th Dec 2012 11:17

Same as JB007 for me. Excalibur with Capt L :ok:

Unfortunately nowadays his Maldives is my wet and windy UK! Still, a good job on the orange buses IMHO.

Chuck Dung 29th Dec 2012 12:48

The FedEx guys who used to be based in the Phillipines had a pretty sweet deal. The money they were hauling in and then to be living in a low cost area like Subic Bay...what a deal! You could live like a king!

Back in my Air Force days on the old C-141, we had a trip (807 missions) where we started off out of Travis AFB (near the San Francisco Bay area) flew to Honolulu -24 hours off; on to Guam - 24 off; Yokata Air Base (Tokyo) - 24 off ( enough time to buy our electronics goods - stereos, speakers, cameras); on to Osan AB Korea- 24 off (buy heavy blankets, silk pajamas, nighties, sheets, and custom fit leathers for biking); fly to Clark Air Base Phillipines -24 off for buying custom tailored mahogony airplane models, shell lamps, papasan wicker chairs, and other "sundry items"; then sometimes off to Kwajelein, or Midway or some other south Pacific atoll or island to drop off supplies; then on to Hawaii for another 24, before heading back to Travis, then Norton to drop off our loot. It was a great trip, fantastic shopping and a 10 day tour of the Pacific.

If we could start up a Pacific Airways flying 747-8s, 777-300ERs, and 787s with flying similiar to that - throw in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Hong Kong, and a must stopover in Anchorage for fresh salmon and crab legs, along with a Los Angeles or Honolulu basing, I would be in pilot heaven.

sludge 29th Dec 2012 13:09

Captain for Southwest Airlines. Lotsa money, easy work, can stay in 1 or two time zones if you want, no demanding bosses or back of the clock flying. :ok:

pull-up-terrain 29th Dec 2012 13:56


I'd rather go to Qantas
The old Qantas definitely, but the current Qantas no way at all.

The ultimate 737 job out there is Virgin Australia

w3andw4d 29th Dec 2012 17:09

Loganair in bonnie Scotland

bacp 29th Dec 2012 17:38

There speaks a man who loves his homeland.

L1011-500 29th Dec 2012 19:22

Maldivian Air Taxi, hehe

Junkflyer 29th Dec 2012 19:53

I like flying the B-717 interisland out of HNL. Average 15 days off, sleep in my own bed every night.

Gruffy 29th Dec 2012 20:44

You will not like it
 
I know this is not going to be popular but here it is.
11 years with Ryanair, LTC, home every night, great flying with good guys and almost brand new aircraft. 5 on 4 off never been interfered with without my permission. Recently had three separate sets of (certificated) sickness with no comment and no salary deductions.
Training and checking second to none.
P40 for the last 3 years over 100k and only been called on a handful of standbys in the last 11 years. Why so much negative press ?
Don't get me wrong I would have loved a command with Imperial Airways, always been called sir and eat my lunch with silver cutlery off of bone china plates but times have moved on. I am just enjoying watching my boys grow up and keeping the wolf from the door the best way I can.
Sorry if that goes against the militant know nothing's but there it is, I comment as it is. Ryanair is not the only Airline ( or company) I have worked for.


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