Cocktail Hour

[Flyboy Sabre 65]

What is your companies policy of drinking on the road? Can you have a cocktail with dinner? How about weekends?

We are in the process of completely redoing our ops manual and these questions have been brought up. I mind you that it wasn't the pilots that brought it!!!

Thanks in advance for your response!!!

 

[empenage]

In the ops manual it says 12 hours from bottle to throttle.

 

[Astra Guy]

Ditto. Weekends? If you aren't scheduled the same rule applies. We have no standby though unless we have been given a heads up for a possible trip, which is extremely rare.

 

[banned username 2]

Ditto. Weekends? If you aren't scheduled the same rule applies. We have no standby though unless we have been given a heads up for a possible trip, which is extremely rare.

Same for us... 12 hours... Weekends are off unless you are scheduled...

 

[Flyboy Sabre 65]

Thanks for the response. Someone suggested that if we have an overnight that we shouldn't have a cocktail with dinner. I really thought that was going a little overboard. Glad to hear people think like me.

Thanks again!!!

 

[empenage]

We normally know our trips at least a day in advance so it's never a problem. If I have a party planned I take a hard day just to be sure.

The company knows that after 5pm they will have to wait untill the next day anyway because of crew rest (i.e. we most likely have been up all day).

A normal trip on the Global is 8-12 hours so they give you a rest after that or airline a crew to turn the plane if time is going to be short for crew rest. It is a pain to airline to the Middle East and China, etc. to swap crews but you get used to it.

Some companies that I have worked for dont allow a glass of wine with dinner at all. On a 20 day trip that gets to be hard, especially with a crew that is tough to get along with in the first place. ( I broke up a fight at a very nice resturant between a pilot and a F/A! I should have let her kick his a$$!! He deserved it.)

 

[Flyboy Sabre 65]

I think I would like to know more about this F/A. She sounds like a fun girl!!!

 

[empenage]

Flyboy Sabre 65

I think I would like to know more about this F/A. She sounds like a fun girl!!!

At 57 she still is fun!! Really a great F/A!! We got mugged in Niarobi together. After something like that, you're family.