Colt45

On the 767 everything is out of CVG. If someone lived in CVG you would probably only spend 7-8 nights away from home. I know of a couple people who moved there just so they’d have the weekends off. Both 747 and 767 are good gigs, unfortunately crew scheduling will sometimes make the job harder than it needs to be.

MoarAlpha

So the 767 lines are a bunch if 2 and 3 day trips? I assume they are back-to-back trips and not much time home inbetween otherwise it would go crazy senior correct? It's dangerous ASSuming...

Im very interested in K4 coming from regional flying over the past 8 years. At 5300TT/600TPIC 121 I'm hoping thats competitive.

sky jet

You assume wrong. Your pairing is 16 days, just like the 747. The trips just go through CVG. It is possible that you COULD sleep in your own bed during that pairing while in CVG but you would still be on your pairing, not off. This is ACMI. The trips, cities and anything else are subject to change on very little notice. What is a sweet gig today can be tommorrows nightmare and vice versa.

MoarAlpha

Oh I get that ACMI is typically all one big trip I was just curious if your CVG operation was different somehow.

Do you owe 16 days of work a month? Does that include travel at the front/back?

sky jet

Yes you owe 16 days. Our contract does not specify that you must be out 16 days but our current management has taken the attitude for years that if he can have you for 16 or 17 he will have you out for that long. Occasionally you might get home a day or even two early but as of late they are so short that it hasn't happened to me in over a year. Travel is on your last day off. Sometimes there are split lines. Then you lose two days off to travel. Depending on where you live and where the trip leaves from you could be giving up a little or a lot of hours on the last day. I personally don't think this is a great job for those with young children or needy significant others. For me the schedule works great. I came home yesterday and will be off nearly three weeks before going back. Of course what suits you is a personal choice. Finally, all of this info and much more is buried in the thread above. Anyone who is interested in Kalitta Air should take an hour or two and read through the thread for the good, the bad and the ugly.

MoarAlpha

Im working my way back slowly. Thanks for the info!

Stimpy the Kat

I take umbrage to the word " Owe ".

No Pilot of any Self-Worth " Owe's " anybody, anything.

( )

Ownership is a Slave Mentality .

Has The Man, Taken you DOWN ?

RISE.

Stimpson J. Kat - ESQUIRE

maxjet

I miss you Mark. You ever coming back?

lionflyer

Next contract.

sky jet

Dear Stimpy, you are correct. Our relationship is more in the line of a pimp/prostitute/John dynamic. My pimp (wife) sends me (prostitute) out to turn tricks with a John (Connie) willing to pay for my services.