Originally Posted by Blackhawk (Post 2812992)

My wife’s exact words to me on my fourth day in Leipzig. For some reason she didn’t feel sorry for me.

Originally Posted by nitefr8dog (Post 2813089)

Just be careful of what you say....a friend of my who was new to the airline answered the phone when his wife called and told her he was at the pool in MIA drinking dollar beers from the honor bar at the pool and watch the European flight attendants with their tops off swimming at the crew only hotel while she was running the snowblower and feeding baloney sandwiches to the kids....I could not believe it! And of course she told my wife!

Originally Posted by BFMthisA10 (Post 2813082)

It's like a Newtonian reaction around here: make a critique, and you're instantly "losing your mind" or otherwise whining and deserving of non-substantive heckling.
It's worth observing. Flying tempo is way down. Will it stay this way forever? Maybe not. (Telling my friends that it's because of the Trump Trade War.) But I like to do what I like to do, and don't like what I don't. Don't like sitting in hotels (or renting cars and driving around for grins, etc). Like flying planes. Just what I am. If I'm woefully short of min guarantee, I'll take an OSC flight over an R2 hands down. Hell I'll come up to YIP and sit support in the box, do engine runs in the Baron, whatever.
If it goes on long enough, it becomes a question of whether or not this is what I want to do. We've all got options. This is still a great gig, no doubt; love the crews, love the plane, love the mission. But I'd be more than willing to save the company hotels and per diem having my bag packed and company phone on my hip at home.
Till then I get no sympathy from my wife either. ;)

And for the math majors in the room: 64 * $110.90 * 12 = $85,171.20; well short of a six figure salary.

Originally Posted by Blackhawk (Post 2812992)

My wife’s exact words to me on my fourth day in Leipzig. For some reason she didn’t feel sorry for me.

Originally Posted by Blackhawk (Post 2812942)

Don’t know if any of you have used Turo. It’s Airbnb for cars. Used it while sitting around ANC for 5 days.

Originally Posted by Joachim (Post 2813437)

Are you guys sitting reserve for the most part on your days off?

Originally Posted by Dutttch (Post 2813622)

Are K4 crews able to do contract outside of Kalitta?

Originally Posted by Blackhawk (Post 2813447)

Do you mean off days outside the footprint of the trip? No. Off days inside the footprint of a trip? Yes, except 1/7.