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Any out and backs?...so that you can be home in dubai more often or is it more like long trips on the road?
thanks
This has been covered quite a few times before, but here's a quick summary:Originally Posted by EZBW
How long are the layovers? pairing?Any out and backs?...so that you can be home in dubai more often or is it more like long trips on the road?
thanks
-it depends on the fleet, but Emirates only likes to fly to places they can go daily, so most layovers are around 24 hours.
-on the Bus, there is one 6 day pairing through NZ, other than that, the longest pairing(s) are 4 days, and most are 2 days. There are a lot of out and backs, but they're often in the dead of night. The Boeing has more long pairings. I understand they have trips up to 9 days long.
-you can bid to be 'home' more, but you'd probably lose productivity and get fewer days off. Keep in mind a clumsily instituted new policy that pilots are now targeted to a MAX of 14 days off per month.
-on the Bus I'd guess an average of 10-12 days off/month, on the Boeing it should be easy to get 14 given all the long trips.
Hope this helps.