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?
Completely true. I've heard of this happening a couple times.
They leave you in places for whatever reasons all the time. Your spouse could be in a medical emergency, your kids in trouble, your parents dead, and you BETTER cover that flight still or your canned.
Well maybe that's an exaggeration, we'll let you burn sick days but you're on your own to get home. Doesn't matter if you're in Nashville, or Kuwait. Good luck.
Not counting things like taking vacation on the TDY and then being left in Spain to find your own way back since that's your "base"...