Originally Posted by
CRJ700Master
I just had an Omni Pilot on my Jumpseat...What this guy had to say about working at Omni had to be exaggerated...
This guy said a pilot had a family emergency at home while he was overseas flying and they wouldn't let him go home...he had to find his own way back home from the other side of the planet...No way that could be true!
Can anyone verify this?
One of the two incidents that I know of was one of my FOs. His grandfather passed away and the company would not get him home ASAP. They refused to buy him a ticket. So to get home he had to work 12 hours and dead head on the same plane he just operated to the east coast. 25 hours and he still had to jumpseat from IAD to ATL. The other one I know of (not a 100% sure of all the details) was when a Captain's fiancé or wife (not sure they were married yet) had a stoke. The company refused to buy him a ticket so he shelled out $2500 for a ticket home. They wanted him to wait a day or two and deadhead on a company plane stateside and then jumpseat home.
That pilot was not exaggerating