A typical day of flying for you

[501261]

Corporate

We're strictly corporate, and no I don't live on a pager. Most of our flights are scheduled about a month in advance, though if an emergency does come up we will do our best to serve the company needs. The last "emergency" was 18 months ago when one of our employees was fatally injured on the job and we had to run HR and legal out to the accident site.

Typically we T/O from our company's HQ at 7AM and run to one of our corporate offices for the day, occasionally we spend the night, but most of the time we're back at our home base around 5-6 PM. We do this 4-5 times per week.

Weekend flying is rare, but occasionally the CEO or one of the EVP's will go somewhere for the weekend. For instance, I just got back from 4 days in Napa, CA (Thursday-Sunday). Napa is a great place for an extended overnight, plus the wife came along, so we spend the entire day Friday tasting wines, spend Saturday recovering and flew home Sunday! At least these weekend trips break up the monotony of the everyday trips. Come to think of it I'll be at the Cabo Wabo or Squid Roe this weekend!

 

[prpjt]

typical day

Our schedule is typical, which is a bit atypical for corporate.

0800 show for 0900 departure.
(0900 show for 1000 departure on days we go to the gym.)

Depart home base and fly 18 - 23 minutes. Released until 4pm.

5pm- depart for home base.

Average 3 to 4 days per week, 15 days per month. Weekend flights are rare, perhaps 8 per year.

Other than that we do 4 or 5 longer trips per year, usually 3 or 4 day stay. Last year we did 21 days RON ( remain over night)

It's about as close as I've ever come to a 9-5 job since I've been flying.

 

[radiofly er]

It pretty much goes like this. The schedules as far as

getting up are the same for every airline, morning and night

shedules. At our company we get paid as soon as we wake up,

the company usually starts paying an hour before the flight is

scheduled to depart. Flights range from two to six landing,

rarelly a seventh landing and if they do give us a seventh

landing, it costs the company. This is because we get paid more

after the 4th landing. After the fourth landing, every landing is

$36.00..... cash! PerDeim is like this: Breakfast: $14.00 Lunch:

$23.00 Dinner: $36.00 (cash, before the flight). I've had days

were I work six landings with per deim included and take about

$120.00 cash in one day. That does not include my work pay for

the day or extra duty hours. As far as days off, we average 17

days off, a month, 68 hours of flying average, 30 day paid

vacation a year (starting the first year). Every flight basically

ends the same, go eat something near the hotel and go to sleep.

 

[turning2]

Hey 501261
... where can I sign up? Napa sounds great right about now

 

[banned username 2]

It pretty much goes like this. The schedules as far as
getting up are the same for every airline, morning and night
shedules. At our company we get paid as soon as we wake up,
the company usually starts paying an hour before the flight is
scheduled to depart. Flights range from two to six landing,
rarelly a seventh landing and if they do give us a seventh
landing, it costs the company. This is because we get paid more
after the 4th landing. After the fourth landing, every landing is
$36.00..... cash! PerDeim is like this: Breakfast: $14.00 Lunch:
$23.00 Dinner: $36.00 (cash, before the flight). I've had days
were I work six landings with per deim included and take about
$120.00 cash in one day. That does not include my work pay for
the day or extra duty hours. As far as days off, we average 17
days off, a month, 68 hours of flying average, 30 day paid
vacation a year (starting the first year). Every flight basically
ends the same, go eat something near the hotel and go to sleep.

HHmmmm... This is a new one... Never heard of an airline paying "extra" for landings, I include one complimentary landing with each and every takeoff I charge them for...

And a guy standing at the jetway handing out CASH for meals before the flight?!?! (Where do I sign up?!?!?!)

Those per diem rates are WAY beyond what the IRS allows for Per Diem, sounds more like suplimental income.... Have you filed your amended return yet????

HHhmmm... must be based in Zimbabwe or somewhere like that... doesn't sound like any US Airline I have ever heard of...

 

[radiofly er]

This is an international foreign carrier. Many of our benefits such as the extra landings and perdeim rates were due to strong negotiations troughout the years, between our union and the company. There is department within our briefing rooms specially dedicated to handing out our perdeim and extra landings money before our flight. This cash is tax free, so yes we do make more than our paychecks reflect.

 

[TXCAP4228]

Couldn't resist

Walk into the office at 7:30, check email, eat a poptart and drink a vanilla coke. Go to a meeting. Come back to my desk and go through email. Solve problems. Lunch late in the afternoon, usually after 1:30pm (usually eaten at my desk or in another meeting). Solve another problem or two. Walk out of the office at 6:00pm (on good days). Drive to the airport. Fly somewhere for dinner, fly home.

Occaisionaly I might even leave the office early or (even better) take a day off and fly all day. Those are great days.