Question for heavy cargo pilots.
 

My question is more for the 747F type of flying. Like polar air. How many days of the month are you flying?

Where I work the schedules run on average week on/week off. Some trips are longer; some shorter. But on average you work about half the month.

Most of the long-haul companies run in the 16-18 day a month range. You will be gone from home the whole time (unless you live where the routing is)
Generally its a straight 17 day shot for us, though some lines are split.

At Polar we work a max of 16 days , including traveling to and from your home to pick up the airplane, and because is all done in z time, you normally fly out the same day you have to go to work and come back a day earlier, so you really are gone for 14 days. but you are gone 14 days straight in about 75% of the lines. the other 25% is about 10 on and then 7 off and then 6 on .

I used to worked for Air willy, this is at is worst, is far better than Air Willy at is best ( and I don't really like long haul flying all that much).

How are the hotels that they put you up in?

Is Polar hiring anytime soon? Who is Air Willie?

We say in pretty nice places overseas, the only ones I really don't like are the 5-towns in JFK (lots of crews stay there) and Holiday Inn Ewr.

Air Wisconsin, they fly for United and USAirways.

we stay at nice hotels , except jfk ( 5 towns) as Rama said. I think every cago carrier stays there, it sucks, but at Polar you rarely see Jfk.

everywhere overseas is really nice 4 or 5 star , the only crappy one is Japan's Hollyday Inn ( delta, quantas and filipines stay there too) and that will be changing soon.

I don't know if they are hiring. the way they interview now is for both Polar and Atlas and then you are offer a class for one of them, so when you interview you don't knw what you are going to be offered. like I said before, is way better than working for the regionals , but there is still a lot to improve.