Originally Posted by
STILL GROUNDED
We'll get paid but that is not going to account for the additional days we'll have to be gone. We won't be flying as many hours a day, the company is not going to want to hire and train more pilots to cover the flight hours they need too. We'll be working min days off and unproductive days at that. My idea of work is not 3 hours of flight time, 9 hours of duty to sit in a hotel for 19 hours everyday only to block 15 hours for the four day.
Long term, this really can't happen. How many guys would stick around the regionals or the lower end of the majors if they had to work 5-6 on, 1-2 off for the rest of their lives. Yeah all the office workers do it but they get to go home every night.
For me I need about 15 days off to break even as far as my quality family time goes. I mean ask yourself... would you really stick with a job where you were on the road 5 days a week?
The only way the airlines might get away with it would be go to outstation basing so everybody could be home each night. You would come in, do one or two hub turns and be done.