Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Pay is the biggest single component of quality of life. All the other QOL items in reality move the deck chairs on which pilots fly which days but no matter how you write the contract the same number of pilots have to work weekends, holidays and fly the all nighters.
Ah, but what does the rest of the rotation look like that contains the red eye? Is one rotation covering all of the weekend, or are two splitting it? Is the holiday being flown by someone who is happy to do it for extra pay, or by someone who would rather not at straight pay? Is the rotation the one you were awarded and could plan your life around, or one you were rerouted into that causes chaos for family plans?
Your 330 world, with kids out of the house - there’s really not much chaos to be had and you may think these things are deck chair movements. For the majority of our list, the experience is quite a bit different.