It's the extra responsibility - the buck really does stop with you. Additionally you have to deal with a new set of issues. It settles down after after a year or so depending on your company culture.

The best advice I had was 'don't look at the right hand seat and expect to see yourself'. I.e. your newly acquired colleagues in the right hand seat won't necessarily behave as you expect! When I swapped seats ninety percent of the First Officers were bloody brilliant. A few were very hard work . . .

How does taking command put extra strain on marriage?
In EZY taking a command will often mean relocating to another base. This is normally temporary but could be in a different country.

If you've a wife and kids settled at the original base then commuting for 6 months to ???? can take its strain on the relationship.

I was away 4 months if you include a type rating course and back most weekends but if it had been a permanent thing (i.e. a few years or more) then the wife said there was no point in being married!!!

Because you start thinking you outrank your spouse :ouch:

well it's ok to say don't put the command at the top of the list whilst things are going gangbusters, just make sure that you get the right !! seat before the next slower period, as history has shown it's pretty hard to predict events that will turn up or down the speed on the aviation cycle.

Is this thread not supposed to be about EZY crew shortages?

Okay, there might be a crew shortage, because Line-Captains still fly the right seat.
As long as this is valid, there must be a shortage of FO´s! At least for the time being!

Gewtting i.d.s
 

The issue is still that getting clearance/id.s is a slow and painful process. For some daft reason, if you have clearance from Co. A, when you shift to Co B, you have to go thru' the whole thing again. If for any reason you are not a "standard" person, then the office-bound staff of the Special Branch get involved.......and they are rather busy at the moment.

IDs
 

What is crazy is that I can get into the UK and European airfilelds we use using my foreign ID without ever having been security vetted. I'm also sure that the muppets that check it have no idea what a HKG ID should look like.
If they are serious then there should be a standard ICAO ID.

@FLY747

What are you trying to explain in regard to EZY crew shortage?
Wrong thread?;) ;)

The plot here Kraut is that the difficulty in getting a pass is partially responsible for the crew shortage. Verstehen Sie?

FLY747

Oh, now I got it! Did not get behind because of the HKG ID!
Sorry for for my slow logic!:ok: