Originally Posted by
Jetlinker
Yeah, those really sweet fractional/corporate are extremely difficult to come by....if someone told me I could choose between XJT, Flight Options, or Avantair, it wouldn't be a tough choice. No offense to those guys at all, I'm just not a 7 on 7 off kind of person. I like having union protection and a good contract. I know a couple guys flying charter at different places. They may fly less, get paid more, but they have like 2 hard days off a month, the rest of the time they're attached to their cell phone.....waiting.
Yea that's true, the union thing is definitely an issue for them. However, for their type of flying, the pilots are the faces of the company. They actually need to keep the pilots happy. Fractionals are more like airline schedules, vs charter. It depends on what you want, there are people on the other side of the fence that can't even imagine flying as a "bus driver" for the airlines with no good benefits.