OB-CPO
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- Joined
- May 29, 2004
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- 148
Yes.
Stand ups 14 hr duty day. 4 legs typical. Any sit less than 4 hours, the company gets 1 hotel room for the 3-4 crewmembers to share.
Most crews just say f-it and sleep on the plane; they get an extra 30-45 minutes of sleep that way, and who wants to go to a hotel room with one bed and one chair with 3 other strangers anyway?
This terrible scheduling policy more than anything else is what got me to leave Mesa, even with a huge paycut and uncertain future at another airline.
Somewhere along the line I realized that in the past 1 1/2 years I had spent roughly half of my sleep time sleeping in the back of a CRJ; it was killing me, making me hate my job, courting disaster as both pilots were routinely fatigued and flying anyway, and causing more sick calls in the past 1 1/2 years than my previous 6 years combined . . . when I said "ENOUGH".
You said ENOUGH? So when did you resign? Or did you stay and just refuse to fly any more standups?