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Old 02-09-2016 | 05:26 PM
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thesandbox
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Just another former ACMI guy giving some perspective. I am now in my fourth year at Atlas on the 767 and also showed only $78k and change on my W2 for last year working 2 days more a month than my last carrier, Ryan International. Our old pre-2004 cargo schedule was 6 on 9 off and beat the way they schedule this DHL stuff hands down. Our AMC and charter flying was all done with blocks of 6-10 days on with equal time off. Our soft pay gave routine credits over 80 hrs a month for only 14/15 days of work and was making more due to that. We are a salaried pilot here with 17 days at their whim. I routinely bid 60 day lines just so I don't have to be gone 17 days in a row. I figured a few extra days per pairing wouldn't matter as much but for the way we are paid and treated here with little QOL it is way too long to be away from home and family, especially with lack of other forms of compensation. I even had a 100% 401k prior and only 50% match here for a listed company with soaring profits. I used to love this type of flying and still get glimpses of that now and again but they are making it harder and harder here to justify it and no way going forward do the current conditions justify continuing this status quo into the future going forward. I never bought into any hope and change 8 years ago and don't buy it around here either. Would love to be proven wrong but actions speak louder than words. ALL IN.
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