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Originally Posted by KODI3
Thank you to present and past employees for sharing your experiences with GAMA contract for WheelsUp. Have a few more questions...
-Typical # of sorties flown per day & duration of each
-Are there some nights spent in Domicile during 6-day work schedule? (meaning if u live 15mins away, can u spend night at home?)
-Is there much flying between 2300-0500?
-Do you sched your own lodging & transportation during the week, or does Dispatch sched those?
What types of hotels IE.. Marriott/Hilton category or Motel 6 category does company provide while on work sched?
Are they still taking deliveries of new King Airs?
Financial stability of company?
Thanks again for passing along info to interested parties.
An acquaintance of mine just started at GAMA. I was curious about all the questions you asked, so here's what I did:
Go to flightaware.com. Enter the tail number of one of their airplanes. They are N801UP and higher. Find one in the area you're interested in (the lower numbers appear to be based in VNY). Flightaware wil show you every flight that airplane has flown for the last two weeks.
Doing that, I discovered that Starbucks is right. Most fly one to three legs a day, generally less than 1.5 hours. At times there will even be a day or two in between flights. Since its a King Air they have the ability to go to some really off-beat, interesting areas. One of the planes went from Cabo to NE Utah in one week and several places in between.
Its a great way to get a feel for the flying they do.