According to this article we only work 23.5 hours a week!
 

This is such a joke! I was looking at an article that was highlighting jobs that require less than a 40 hour work week.

Apparently they have no idea about sitting reserve 8 hours a day for 5 days at a time...or overnights...or delays...or anything really.

Sure, we can't truly consider time sitting in a hotel "labor", but if I count the amount of time I'm away when working its WELL over 40 hours a week!

Jobs with under 40-hour work weeks - CNN.com

Also our annual earnings are $119k. Anybody at a regional making that yet? I'm not. My pay equals about $12.50 an hour when sitting reserve.

CNN............Are you really that surprised?

It's actually a career builder article.

Who can be shocked at this, coming from the company where if you sign up..and ask for "aircraft pilot" job notifications. They send you ads for jobs at "pilot gas stations"

And you think FOX would have reported it any different?

Now that's funny! I never tried that - but I believe it. I've received some weird stuff from these job sites before, but never "pilot gas station" employment.

I think they should have added to that article:
Non-stop travel to exotic locales, spend much time drinking cocktails aboard private yachts, earns high respect of the traveling public, has unlimited time to pursue hobbies while not flying, etc.

Bogus. I want to know the email of the person who wrote that article so I can refute every tiny point.

Should have said that we get paid for 23.5 PERCENT of our time!

For the sake of fairness, the author does disclaim that the numbers are the mean figures taken from a BLS survey. He's just regurgitating facts taken from somewhere else. Yes, it's misleading. But anybody able to read that article should also be capable of understanding that a few pieces of fact rarely make the whole truth.

Well the average has gone down with all the furloughed in this industry. I work about 0.0 hours every week.

Obviously the writer has no clue how things work in the real world. Which would explain why he/she is employed by CareerBuilder. I wish duty time were mentioned in this article. The 4-day trip worth 16 hours of pay and 55 hours of unpaid duty would floor them.

I agree, you're probably right.

No duty rig? ;) But that's a good point. Most of the public doesn't understand that element of the job.