Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
Yikes. That’s insane. That’s definitely the longest I have heard of. There used to be (may still be) a BWI FA that commutes from Ghana. Flies up to IAD, sometimes via another city, rail across the region, works for a month, goes home for a month. I mean I get it, but at some point as a FA you have to hit a point where it just isn’t worth all that.
I dunno man, there's interesting dynamics all around the world of migrant workers who do those sorts of schedules and worse. That's what I would chalk this sort of thing up to. It's not something I'd ever want for myself, but millions of people do that sort of thing every day. I flew with a dude who met his (now) wife in China when he was working for another carrier. She is Filipino and was working as a house cleaner on an 11 month on / 1 month off schedule. They live in the equivalent of crashpads. It's not that much different than the lifestyle some FAs live.