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11-26-2018, 08:27 AM
#252
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Joined APC: Dec 2014
Position: Just a pilot
Posts: 745
Originally Posted by Guard
did you use the $26 for foos on top of per diem if the crew meal was bad?
11-26-2018, 09:34 AM
#253
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Joined APC: Oct 2018
Posts: 443
This is why people don’t understand that per diem and deviations don’t go all that far sometimes. If you’re at a prison hotel with no food, hopefully you can UberEats or get delivery. That 23 bucks for the deviation gets gobbled up quick. Or sometimes your only option is a 26 dollar hamburger.
11-26-2018, 02:28 PM
#254
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Joined APC: Dec 2014
Position: Just a pilot
Posts: 745
Originally Posted by OhSnapAF
This is why people don’t understand that per diem and deviations don’t go all that far sometimes. If you’re at a prison hotel with no food, hopefully you can UberEats or get delivery. That 23 bucks for the deviation gets gobbled up quick. Or sometimes your only option is a 26 dollar hamburger.
11-26-2018, 06:49 PM
#256
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: Weekends off
Posts: 398
Originally Posted by tm602
Assuming you can even get time to use it either 1) the restaurants are closed when you are done or 2) your overnight is too short to go out and use it ths making even a "next day" request moot because the next day will run too long and the 24 hrs is up.
Or .... you can choose not to believe me and continue down the road of....everything sucks.
11-26-2018, 06:51 PM
#257
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: Weekends off
Posts: 398
Originally Posted by OhSnapAF
This is why people don’t understand that per diem and deviations don’t go all that far sometimes. If you’re at a prison hotel with no food, hopefully you can UberEats or get delivery. That 23 bucks for the deviation gets gobbled up quick. Or sometimes your only option is a 26 dollar hamburger.
11-26-2018, 07:28 PM
#258
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2009
Posts: 73
As much as I’m thankful to be long gone from nj, I def have a new appreciation for the crew food days. I could always have a decent salad and something else to fill up the gut throughout the day. Now days I’m happy to find an $18 burger in the terminal before the kitchen closes. Beotch all you want, but at least it was a meal!! Good luck folks!
11-26-2018, 07:43 PM
#259
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Joined APC: Nov 2013
Position: On the bus,seat 0A
Posts: 3,228
Originally Posted by OhSnapAF
Times you don't get crew meals:
1. Day 1 when you only airline
2. Anytime throughout your tour that you aren't attached to an airplane, or don't go to the FBO (sitting spare at the hotel all day)
3. when they are too cheap to order it from the airport you want it at
You can't count on it 100% of the time.
No bs, maybe 50% of the crew meals I received were edible. I don't consider Taco Bell, and the "egg product" breakfast at the Holiday Inn Express, real food. So if you do, then you will love the crew meals. I got tired of the mystery meat and sketch meals. I used my per diem, it was not added to my income.
Crew meals are only, solely, and exclusively to try and keep the metal moving, that is it. They are mostly low quality, very cheap food items. Sometimes you get some good food but it runs the entire spectrum depending on where you go. I often called and said I needed 30 min to go grab food because I refused to eat crew meals.
One of the few things that made me really depressed about NetJets, were captains taking 2-3 crew meals up to their room at the end of a long, hard day, and combining them to make food. I mean just thinking about people doing that made me legitimately depressed, it was so toxic, but guys love eating 10 hour old food in their boxers in a truck stop hotel...
Trust me, per diem is needed and necessary.
1. Day 1 when you only airline
2. Anytime throughout your tour that you aren't attached to an airplane, or don't go to the FBO (sitting spare at the hotel all day)
3. when they are too cheap to order it from the airport you want it at
You can't count on it 100% of the time.
No bs, maybe 50% of the crew meals I received were edible. I don't consider Taco Bell, and the "egg product" breakfast at the Holiday Inn Express, real food. So if you do, then you will love the crew meals. I got tired of the mystery meat and sketch meals. I used my per diem, it was not added to my income.
Crew meals are only, solely, and exclusively to try and keep the metal moving, that is it. They are mostly low quality, very cheap food items. Sometimes you get some good food but it runs the entire spectrum depending on where you go. I often called and said I needed 30 min to go grab food because I refused to eat crew meals.
One of the few things that made me really depressed about NetJets, were captains taking 2-3 crew meals up to their room at the end of a long, hard day, and combining them to make food. I mean just thinking about people doing that made me legitimately depressed, it was so toxic, but guys love eating 10 hour old food in their boxers in a truck stop hotel...
Trust me, per diem is needed and necessary.
11-26-2018, 08:07 PM
#260
Banned
Joined APC: Oct 2018
Posts: 443
Originally Posted by wankel7
Delivery fee is not part of the $23 allotment. It is on top of and there is no published limit on the delivery fee.
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