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Old 06-30-2008, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 1900Driver View Post
I am wondering what the typical schedule of a Net Jets crew is? I understand there is a 7 on 7 off deal. But can anyone explain the flex 18 day thing? I am trying to look into Netjets more but I dont have any idea what schedules are or what lifestyle is like... I see the pay on APC. I appreciate anyones help out there. thnx
I will give this a shot, just one thing, I am on the 400XP and things are different on other fleets, mainly with how much you work within a tour. So first you need to erase all ideas of an airline pilot schedule or bidlines work, they don't exist on the 18 day schedule. In order to get this schedule I submitted a bid preference sheet with options for two specific days off, short/long tours (short 6 or less, long 7 or more (4 eight day tours a year max)), and balanced/unbalanced days off (balanced meaning 3off 6on 3off 6on 3off 6on 3off to = 30 days and unbalanced meaning 6on 5off 5on 3off 7on 4off = 30 days. Then you can prioritize what you want most, right now it is done with humans and it is to be a computer in the next year or so, we are hoping a computer can do better. Here was my schedule on the 18 day for March-July, I have just put the days I worked any day not covered is a day off:

March: Tours 1-4, 11-17, 24-30
April: Tours 4-9, 15-20, 25-30
May: Tours 1-2, 8-14, Vaca 19-21, tour 26-31
June: Tours 1, 8-13, 17-21, Training 25-30
July: Training 1, Tours 6-11, 15-20, 27-31

When I bid it is pretty random, but unless I really need a day off I look for short tours. The three days of vacation happens when you get hired in the middle of the vacation year and only comes in your first year. On the tour from April 25-May 2nd I was sent home on May 1st (400XP thing). On all of these tours I only started on day once before 8am. If I remember correctly I was home before sunset everyone of them too. So now that you have the days you are working you can see what you will do on these days. I will pick a tour at random and tell you how it went: So the day before day one of a tour I will get a brief for day one on my Blackberry between 6-7pm. Brief is for 8am show for 8:30am Airline/Ground for PBI-MCO. I show up at 8am and here is what I did that day: Actually I was updated to not show until 9am then I took a Taxi (aka town car) from PBI-FLL, fly WN from FLL-MCO, went to Signature and sat for 4 hours munching on crew food until we went to the hotel for the night at 6pm. Day two: Show at 10am for flights MCO-PIE-IAD, arrived at IAD at 4pm and went to the hotel. Day three: 5am show to sit at Signature, ferry to HPN at 11am. Plane broke and went to the hotel at 1pm. Day four: 3am show on duty at hotel, duty ended at 10am. Day five: 4am show for flights HPN-YYZ-MMU, went to the hotel around 10am, had hotel duty until 1pm. Day six: Show at 7am for a limo to EWR and US EWR-CLT-PBI and back to PBI at 4:30p.

Now if someone would put a CE-750 or CE-650 tour on here it would probably have a little more flying involved. Some things to remember max duty day day is 14 hours, time over 12 hours is paid an hourly rate (about $35-$45/hr for a 1st year FO). Minimum rest is 10 hours. These are hard times and while mistakes happen as soon as it is pointed out it is fixed no question.

Well I hope this helps a little bit and if it is clear as mud I will try to answer questions as there is a lot more to it and I simplified it.

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