Originally Posted by CA1900

It's honest. A pilot on the 7/7 is working about 167 duty hours a month, and that's generously assuming only 11 hour days -- mine were generally 12+ in the Excel.

I'm now a junior pilot at a major, working 14 days a month, comprising about 105 duty hours. It's typically 3-on/4-off, but if I want to reshuffle it and work 6-on/8-off, I can do that.

There are things I miss about NJA, but packing two full work weeks into a 7-day tour is not one of them.

I've done both jobs, and was at NJA for a long time. NJA guys put in a lot of hours at work for their money. I don't know a single pilot there who would disagree.