Crew Meals at the Fractionals - Good, Bad & Ugly

[dash_trash]

Just remember at Options you (a pilot) have no Options

And what they send you after arguing the policy with dispatch, is often unedible. It really says a lot about the meal when the line guys throw it away after you hand it to them. uke:

 

[dime line]

I just love the Tofu Sandwich, and the Cheese sandwich!

Breakfast....Whatever they send, no choice

Lunch........Whatever they send, no choice

Dinner........Whatever they send, no choice

So the beautiful thing is we feed the line guys a lot and we also feed the garbage can a lot as well.

 

[gutshotdraw]

At NJA, crew food available 24 hrs a day, provided you have trips on your line or are hot spare. No charge. Currently a menu of 21 meals, 7 each for lunch, bfast, dinner. The menu changes quarterly - we are given a bunch of choices and vote on them, supposedly the 7 most popular for each meal then make it to the menu. The crew food program is changing, though, and I like the look of the examples that were provided. Rudy's and Stevie's suck, BTW. They were good when we could order whatever we wanted, but when price points were instituted by the company, the quality really suffered.

Greaaattt! We get to join our union cousins on the fixed crew meal plan in about 10 days. All domestic, Mexico, and Carribbean flights are subject to the fixed menu but Hawaii, Alaska, and to/from other International will be crew choice. And we even get to order it ourselves on the gizmo! Woo-hoo!:uzi:

 

[TurboHonda]

And what they send you after arguing the policy with dispatch, is often unedible. It really says a lot about the meal when the line guys throw it away after you hand it to them. uke:

Don’t lose sight of who benefits from crew meals. It’s certainly not the pilot. The company wants you to stay with the plane and fly trips. So, they send food out to you. That keeps the pilot from leaving the FBO to seek necessary nourishment.

Somewhere along the line the company starts thinking it’s some kind of benefit to the pilot. Frequently the pilot starts believing it too.

The next time you get a ptomaine special; send a BB message to dispatch.

Say “The food was crap. I’ve taken the crew car to go eat. Will advise when I return.”

 

[sweptwingz]

A typical crew meal....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzpN9ce_qF0

 

[MrSky]

You Guys really get Food supplied to you??
How to you get a job at a fractional...Sign me up!

 

[CA1900]

You Guys really get Food supplied to you??

Yup, at no cost to us. There aren't food courts at FBOs, so the options are either let us go get food and keep the plane parked for a couple of hours, or send food to us at the airport. (If we have several hours of downtime they'll tell us to go find food ourselves with a crew car, but that's uncommon.)

For the meals we get at NJA, the quality varies depending on the vendor, and there isn't a ton of variety. But you get a free meal in exchange for keeping a multimillion-dollar machine moving a little more during the day. I'd say the company gets the better end of the deal, believe me!

No idea what the crew meals involve at the other fractionals, although I understand that CitationShares deducts $10 from your per-diem for every crew meal you get.

How to you get a job at a fractional...Sign me up!

http://www.netjets.com/footer_content/careers_pilots.asp
http://www.citationshares.com/careers/job.aspx?job=1
https://bombardier.taleo.net/servle...ge=en&selected_language=en&csNo=2#topOfCsPage
http://www.flightoptions.com/career_opportunities.html

 

[TurboHonda]

You Guys really get Food supplied to you??
How to you get a job at a fractional...Sign me up!

Perfect mentality. You'll fit right in.

 

[FLYLOW22]

Greaaattt! We get to join our union cousins on the fixed crew meal plan in about 10 days. All domestic, Mexico, and Carribbean flights are subject to the fixed menu but Hawaii, Alaska, and to/from other International will be crew choice. And we even get to order it ourselves on the gizmo! Woo-hoo!:uzi:

Don't like it? Get a Union!!!

 

[gutshotdraw]

You have a union and you have it. And so, we're getting it. The difference is, we don't get grievance money when they screw it up. Now THAT might be a reason to get a union