Originally Posted by
DeepThoughts
Pardon my ignorance, as I'm just preparing to interview. Does "SQ" stand for Special Qual, as in international flying? Would that even be desirable as a New Hire? I am far more concerned with what I can credit in a given month. Thanks!
it does, SQ are the Europe trained crews.
Put it this way… as a new hire doing that, obviously on reserve, the company also considers you a trained 320 pilot. Therefore after say after all the Europe flights leave, there’s this wonderful SDQ redeye turn in open time and you’re still legal for it….yeah. Basically as an SQ during your reserve availability, you’re on the hook not only for the SQ flying, but anything else in there they can dump on you as well and they are usually redeyes.