Originally Posted by bryris

Agreed.

However, flying a 16 hour 4 day trip, only to tell your family you'll be home at 3pm on day 4, and you'll go out to dinner that night, to then have crew scheduling call you for a junior assignment (which they called you out of seniority anyway because they knew where you were - direct violation of the contract) to then double deadhead you to Albany where you will sit in a hotel all day on Saturday before flying the leg back to base that evening....doesn't buy happiness either.

And this isn't the exception to the rule.

Also, you mentioned the beating on the body. What are your thoughts of being exposed to 200x the normal radiation levels while in the flight levels? And if I worked 50 hours a week, I'd be a happy man. I am on day 4 right now of a 6 day trip. Ran out of lotion too.....

For the math challenged among us, that is 144 hours a week. Granted it isn't always this much. But a 4 day trip is minimum of 85 hours. If you think time off is sitting in a hotel room or at the airport on a 4 hour layover..... that doesn't fit my definition. Assume 8 hours of sleep a night. 8 *4 = 32, so 84 - 32 = 52 hours of "work", for 22 hours of pay. Enjoy that.