Originally Posted by Pantera

Maybe schedulers should do what we get to do. It would be something like this.

Commute to JFK to work scheduling. You need to be there for a 5am show but since obviously there are no flights that get in at that time you commute the day before which is actually your day off of which you only had two of. Then you need to stay in your crash pad (you have to get a crashpad since an apartment in NYC is about 1500$ to 2500$ in the bad section of town, and that is double what you make in a month) over night but since there are 12 of you sharing the crashpad you get there and share a room with four other people. You try to get to sleep at a reasonable hour but since there are so many people coming in and out you don't and now you have to get up at 3am to make the bus to get to JFK on time for your 5 am report.

Next you show up at work and clock in at 5am and start working getting ready for your shift (after 5 hours sleep which really feels like two hours) but you don't actually get paid for it until 6am even though you had to punch in at 5am. Now you work for two hours maybe three or even as little as one. Then you just have to stop working and sit there for 3 hours or even 4 hours without getting paid. You still have work to do but you can't do it because someone else needs to use your computer. But you have to wait there again without getting paid until your computer becomes free. By this time you have been at work for 8 plus hours but you still have 6 hours to go.

Finally you can complete your work but you were requested to complete scheduling in another city. So you get there and the van doesn't show up to pick you up but while you are waiting to get to the hotel you still are not getting paid. See while you are actually waiting there you are getting rest so you can get back to work in 8 hours. You by law do not need sleep only rest. So you go to the hotel which you find out has nothing close by to get something to eat at so you just do with out. The hotel is crappy but it really doesn't matter once in awhile since you only have to stay in hotels 260+ nights a year. You write a CCL about the crappy hotel which travels at the speed of light to nowhere.

I could go on and on but Writing a book on this just doesn't explain how crappy life as a regional pilot is.