Avoiding Airport Appreciation Day
02-18-2020, 06:27 PM
#11
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Originally Posted by EMAW
you got it. But looking at the company as a whole, the amount of airport standby is a small percentage of our duty.
02-19-2020, 03:35 AM
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In 18 months at Tradewind Aviation I’ve been assigned Standby @ FBO one time and that was an accident. If we’re on an overnight trip and the flight doesn’t depart until the afternoon, we’ll be standby @ hotel (so on duty) until we have to check out, then we’ll grab lunch or catering, then head to the airport. If the departure is very late the following night I have on a couple occasions been given a hotel for two nights just so we didn’t have to check out and sit at the FBO for 8+ hours.
02-20-2020, 05:52 PM
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At Travel Management, if you don’t have flights, you hang at hotel. The exception is you fly some people in for a meeting or whatever, wait around 5 hrs, then fly them back. Usually in this situation, ops will tell you to grab a crew car and have lunch on the company card. Sometimes if the other guy is fun, we’ll go to a museum or driving range or something.
02-20-2020, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by aharrin1
At Travel Management, if you don’t have flights, you hang at hotel. The exception is you fly some people in for a meeting or whatever, wait around 5 hrs, then fly them back. Usually in this situation, ops will tell you to grab a crew car and have lunch on the company card. Sometimes if the other guy is fun, we’ll go to a museum or driving range or something.
02-21-2020, 05:17 AM
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This is a good question to ask. A certain 91k/135 operator in the midwest makes their crews sit at the FBO 8 hours a day, every day they don't fly. Supposed to be off the ground in 30 minutes for pop ups or something ridiculous.
02-21-2020, 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Varsity
This is a good question to ask. A certain 91k/135 operator in the midwest makes their crews sit at the FBO 8 hours a day, every day they don't fly. Supposed to be off the ground in 30 minutes for pop ups or something ridiculous.
02-25-2020, 04:21 PM
#19
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Originally Posted by Varsity
This is a good question to ask. A certain 91k/135 operator in the midwest makes their crews sit at the FBO 8 hours a day, every day they don't fly. Supposed to be off the ground in 30 minutes for pop ups or something ridiculous.
02-25-2020, 08:06 PM
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[QUOTE=aharrin1;2980645]At Travel Management, if you don’t have flights, you hang at hotel. The exception is you fly some people in for a meeting or whatever, wait around 5 hrs, then fly them back. Usually in this situation, ops will tell you to grab a crew car and have lunch on the company card. Sometimes if the other guy is fun, we’ll go to a museum or driving range or something.[/QUOTE
It’s good to see that the pilot recruiters are still in the house!
It’s good to see that the pilot recruiters are still in the house!
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