Originally Posted by
FNGFO
Nope. He was a check pilot at Flex. It’s about 100% accurate. Flex isn’t staffed to do anything else, and I doubt they’ve made up for the ongoing attrition.
My friend just completed a 7 day hitting 24 airports, riding 3 airlines and flying 3 different tails. And that’s not unusual.
It may happen here and there, but this is not what happens every trip. That’s just embellishment by some saying this happens ALL THE TIME. I will give you that riding airlines def sucks, just a horrible product provided by all of them. However, I just don’t understand why people complain about 3-4 legs a day. We are pilots, we fly airplanes...that’s the job. Just seems like whining to me. I’m currently on day 1 today sitting home reserve near my family, will have no assignment today. Tomorrow I have an airline at 10am to meet a tail. Sooooo, the aforementioned regarding all the “abuse and torture” clearly isn’t true of EVERY trip.