Originally Posted by
CousinEddie
Wow. Sounds just as awful as others have claimed. Eight days at “home” per month and you’re a basket case for most of it? It should be quiet at “home” at least, once the wife packs up the kids and leaves! You might as well chain smoke, drink heavily, and eat all the burgers you want. You can’t do much worse for your health with continuous rosters like those. Hope it gets better one way or another.
Today, the airlines in the U.S. an in Europe are on a hiring spree, offering descent pay. That said, with QOL, pay and benefits, ME flying is certainly not the desirable place to work. However, should the tides shift, with jobs once again drying up, the ME airlines, with poor QOL, substandard pay and benefits may become a necessary evil to put food on the table, pay the mortgage... etc...