Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
I think it is funny how pilots - obviously a traditional traveling job - often complain about the travel aspects of the job. It is like a heart surgeon complaining about blood. Sure there are pilot job that require very little traveling. They are the MINORITY. If you want to be a pilot - and especially an airline pilot - then you ought to know going into the job that you are going to be traveling. If you want to spend every night in home in your own bed - look elsewhere and fly for fun!
Very well said. G4 tries to sell the hell out this concept. To distract from the crap schedule practices, constant lack of staffing, running the airline like its going out of business, sub-standard pay, etc.
I am amused by pilots who pack nothing more than a lunch sack. This expectation creates a “get-home” itis mind set. Wonder how are maintenance write-ups look in comparison to more traditional airline schedules? Wonder if the faa has taken notice? I am sure they have, or will.
This is an unrealistic ideal at g4, given our maintenance and operational control, or lack thereof. If being in your own bed every night is that important, then you got into the wrong business.