Originally Posted by
Mach5
Thanks for the input, guys.
For lets say a 16 day on rotation, is that followed by 14 hard days off? Then travel out, work, and travel back inside the 16 days?
Are there times where you make it home within the 16 day rotation? Reserve scenarios for instance?
Do you travel with a reserve crew?
Most of the flying for a junior guy will be X amount of days working at the beginning of the month. Followed by 12 off and two "override" days at home (long call reserve) and Y amount of days off. More senior lines have that basic pattern reversed with the days off in the middle.
Known flying comes in both varieties and goes senior or junior depending on how good the destinations are. I've never lost known flying from my schedule.
You travel on your own (company plans and pays it obviously, just you can plan on being solo, especially for gateway travel); if it coincides with other crewmembers it's either due to you being on the same trip or a strange alignment of the planets.