Perhaps they don't celebrate Christmas? I know I don't, and I consider it my duty to go to work that day so that at least one other pilot that does celebrate gets it off.

 

Back when I was single, I never worried about bidding Christmas off. Now, it's different, but working Christmas goes with the territory.

 

As an additional benefit for some, owning a farm opens up this avenue:

Online Dating, Free Dating Site & Farmer Dating Online For Singles

 

I own one company and 50% of another. My LLC that I own 50% of is the family farm. (My dad owns the other half). I've had three accountants look over my taxes to try and manage them. After three years of losses the IRS can come in and designate your business as a hobby if it is not generating a profit. This will limit your deductions to something like $2000 per year. They usually won't bother you until 5 years. So this may work for a few years, but eventually you have to make money.

Here is a good article that explains the basics of using a farm for tax purposes.

http://www.hobbyfarms.com/farm-marke...xes-14991.aspx


The only real way to have long term tax relief is to not get paid via W-2 wages like the really wealthy people do. With the current tax code it gets tough to hide money every year with a side business when all that business is doing is creating expenses to offset your W-2 wages.

Maybe I just have bad accountants, but side business won't help you hide income for very many years. My problem is both my business are doing great so now I've got that to deal with. 1st world problems.....it's tough I tell ya.

 

That's pretty cool, thanks Marcal. It didn't help me out this year, but I am sure many others including myself appreciate the sentiments.

 

Like the farming idea... flew with a guy who had a Xmas tree farm... did very well tax wise. Also hearing that vacation rental property is a good way to go... need to do some homework.

Always get a chuckle when I read a new hire complaining about flying Xmas, holidays, weekends, etc. (especially when one is less than one year with the company!). Did they miss the brief that this is a seniority based system?

I pretty much counted on at least my first 5 years sucking, so I didn't see any point in complaining about it.

On another note. In 26years I have never seen the amount of guys flying the last 15dys of a month in a row without a break... IMHO FAR 117 has been a total disaster... very rarely happened with 30 in 7.

 

Or you could bid it off then get an almost guaranteed GS.

That is why we need double pay on holidays. Then Marcal could bid it so those who celebrate Christmas could enjoy it off AND he would get paid double.

 

Yep. It's a mess when they start unstacking. You get nothing but back to back unstacked trips.

 

Remember, it's better to have a tax problem than no tax problem.

 

Thats a great idea for when I'm senior enough to get it off if I wanted. Like I said, no biggie and glad someone will be home with their family. In return, I expect you all to bid to work all 8 crazy nights for me to be home….JK!