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If he could afford to go back to regionals, he would, but kids and rent and life doesn't allow for it. Great pilots yes, time home with family, no. I was a pilot myself, I gave it up to be with family. Much more important than a cockpit. Until management understands their pilots are humans, with families that miss them, then it's no place to be since there is no union to protect the pilots rights and humanity.
There are many holes in your argument here. Your husband is busy, no lie about that! Originally Posted by Cloudhugger
I'm the wife of an EAS pilot. He's home 1-2 nights a month, gets his hard days off moved around, denied overtime, denied vacation requests, drives and drives and drives to different bases.If he could afford to go back to regionals, he would, but kids and rent and life doesn't allow for it. Great pilots yes, time home with family, no. I was a pilot myself, I gave it up to be with family. Much more important than a cockpit. Until management understands their pilots are humans, with families that miss them, then it's no place to be since there is no union to protect the pilots rights and humanity.
-1-2 Nights a month home? He is guaranteed 6 hard days that are his to do with as he pleases and are not going to moved without his permission except for training events. So if he is only home 1-2 nights a month, he is choosing to be gone on his hard days for the bonus.
-EAS pilots do drive between bases where airline service is unavailable and/or less reliable than driving.
-When is your man requesting VAC? If he requests last minute, then most likely it can't be accommodated. He knows that he can request it 6 months in advance.
-As for the union, there will never be a union at EAS to "protect" the pilots. Ask FLOPS pilots how they like their union. They aren't all they're cracked up to be.
EAS pilots are the busiest in the business. I can't deny that. But when people post here with blatant lies and mis-infomation, it really annoys me.
If people are unhappy, they have the right to leave. When you just stay and whine then what productive purpose are you serving?