Welcome to Flightinfo.com

  • Register now and join the discussion
  • Friendliest aviation Ccmmunity on the web
  • Modern site for PC's, Phones, Tablets - no 3rd party apps required
  • Ask questions, help others, promote aviation
  • Share the passion for aviation
  • Invite everyone to Flightinfo.com and let's have fun

Corporate Schedules?????

Welcome to Flightinfo.com

  • Register now and join the discussion
  • Modern secure site, no 3rd party apps required
  • Invite your friends
  • Share the passion of aviation
  • Friendliest aviation community on the web

sg737

Active member
Joined
Jan 24, 2007
Posts
41
Hey, just curious... kind of a survey with all the corporate guys out there. Tell me about your schedules, and time spent with your family. I know "schedule" is a relative term.... But do you have quality time at home??

Thanks.....
 
schedule firm about 2 to 3 weeks out
60 or so overnights per year (incl schools)
maybe 1 or 2 pop ups (get to the airport when you can)
15 weekend days or so
almost no int'l
around 340 hours per year last few years
2 airplanes 6 pilots


baseball coach, cub scouts, soccer, etc.
 
Our sked is known 2 weeks prior. All owner/family pleasure flying is known when they secure their hotels. For instance I new we would be in NYC for Thanksgiving in June and could take the wife. Also, all employees ( except pilots) get 7 paid Holidays off per year. I negotiated that if the pilots work on any of those Holidays they would be compensated $600/day.
As for our Schedule here it goes:
Week 1...... Monday-Wednesday
Week 2...... Monday ( sometimes RON on Monday and depart Tuesday)
Week 3 See Week 1
Week 4 See Week 2
So about 8-10 days monthly plus family flying. In the past 12 months we have done 3 day weekends in Cabo, Cancun, Caymans, Chicago & NYC.
Last year we fly 298 hours.

All in all pretty easy. No pop ups. Have told the Boss that I can't guarantee any scheduling without a 48 hour advance notice. For emergencies, if the normal crew can't handle it I have 7 pilots locally that handle vacations, training and sick days. I told him that we could operate as an on call operation, however my salary would baloon to $300,000 and my FO's would increase to $150,000. Thankfully, he believes in quality of life and agrees with my assesment. This is not an iron fist type of management but one of reality which comes with responsibility from both sides.
1 aircraft.... 2 full time pilots with 7 contract pilots available. 70-75 RONs/Yr
 
Last edited:
One airplane, three pilots, one mechanic. Fly about 20 hours a month, almost every trip is a R.O.N.,almost no waiting all day in the FBO. No office time, no politics. Tons of personal time and the privilege to pick and choose trips for personal schedule.
Average pay with bonus, 401k and pension, paid vacation, sick time, uniform and tuition reimbursement, they even pay for CFI renewal. Too bad its going away!
 
Out on Mon and back on Fri. Off on weekends + holidays + 1 week during the month. Give or take a few days. Outlook up to 60 days out, very very very rare pop ups. But like everything else in life, there is the bad attached to the good. For this job the good is definitely the QOL.
 
Four hard days off a month (which CAN be busted if necessary). Every other day is fair game. Bad months are 23 day international trips. Good months are one or two days.

Usually somewhere in between. You can work 14 days in a row (domestic), with a couple overnights at home all while the other guys sit at home--just the freaky scheduling logic that was developed in an earlier time (based on obsolete parameters) but lives on...

Worst deal was a two week Asia trip with two days off and another two week Asia trip. Only happened once.

The schedulers really try to work with you and get the days off you want.

I wouldn't advise anyone else to adopt it but it works for us. Most of the time... TC
 
One pilot, one plane; KA 200. I fly once every 2 weeks for 3-4 days.

I usually know 1-3 weeks in advance.

A few pop-up trips, I try to be as accomodating as possible, since we fly so little.
 
What schedule??

For us the schedule is only fixed for about a week in advance. The further out you get, the more it changes. We have a great pilot to plane ratio, so we only fly about 10-15 days a month each. But you can not plan for anything because it will change! They do give us plenty of vacation time though.

My experience in the Corporate world has been that there are three main variables in a good job. 1) pay 2) equipment 3) QOL (schedule). Few companies give you the very best of all three. 2 out of the 3 seems to be the norm.

-EMU
 
One pilot, one plane; KA 200. I fly once every 2 weeks for 3-4 days.

I usually know 1-3 weeks in advance.

A few pop-up trips, I try to be as accomodating as possible, since we fly so little.

H your schedule sounds just like mine, I've had about 60 days off in the past 2 and a half months. I am the only pilot also on a KA 200 and they pay me about $10,000 below the low side of the scale. On my days off I look at alot of computer porn and wash and wax the A/C by myself in the hangar. When I'm not doing that I am putting togheter office furniture and changing light bulbs at the main office. When I'm flying RON's I'm usually the guy at the bar drunk and by myself because I'm the only pilot. So really I'm more of a Office Handyman and general B!t@h that gets to fly a neat old plane on occasion.
 
6 EMB-135 28 pilots, 9 at my base 2 A/C set shcedule for departures and arrivals 5 days a week. We work usually a 2 day week and then a 3 day week with a reserve tossed in there.

No tossing bags or ordering catering (pax get water only , lol) 3 Flight attendants, 4 destinations. We know our schedule a month out but there are lots of changes due to sick, emergencies or swaps. We are technically on call even on our non fly days but that rarely happens. 2 Weeks of Vacation, 7 Personal days, 1 Week off for 4th of July, Thanksgiving and 2.5 weeeks off for Christmas.

Im home every night and weekends off. Upgrade is virtually non existant at my base 2.5 years here only 2 upgrades, but I am next in line for it. Pay is well below industry average, Management is fair. No office or extra work except training a few times a year and recurrent 1xyear for FO and 2x year for Captain.

We get a rental car for our sits (6hrs) and a meal supplement for the day.
Sounds like the perfect place on paper but like everywhere we have our problems to deal with. I can hang out here until I get my recall.

Tailwinds
Maddog
 

Latest resources

Back
Top