Free Food???

[Diesel]

Premadona yeah lets see. I or my partner is hunger we don't just suck it up and fly to the next desitnation. We stop the plane and eat. If that means the company providing us the food we ordered then we eat that if the company fails to provide us that food then we go sit down at a restaurant.

By choking down a microwave heated meal in an fbo "cantina" I am doing the company a favor. I am keeping the engines turning and having the bare minimum of the substitance in me. Pre madona is going to eat a HOT meal at every stop.... but we make sacrifices... yet i have no problem doing it in a heartbeat

Food is the same as sleep. Not enough of either and we're done.

Its not a perk, its the bare minimum to keep jet a burnin.

If the guy is in such a crappy job why isn't his question how is mx? Because if they won't even pay for the food or truck stop hotel you know their mx is about the same quality too.

 

[WrknStff]

To get back to the original topic, we all seem to know netjets policy. Doesn't Citation Shares provide crew meals and then deduct them from the crew's per diem?

 

[acaTerry]

I'll gladly take the time to go purchase a decent meal. In fact, I'd prefer that. As I am sure most pilots would.

HS

Not me...that per diem is vital income to the SICs.

 

[acaTerry]

Some people are still slugging out the hardcore due paying jobs where you fly all night, sleep 3 hours in the day, and eat vending machine food when you are lucky enough to find one, stay at truck stop motels, sit on call and on "rest" simultaniously (go figure, thanks for that one FAA) and only get a few 24 hour periods off per month (yes that means working 7 days a week every week with no time off).

Maybe the guy has a tough job, and the idea of eating more than doritos and snickers bars for breakfast (at midnight) 6 nights a week appeals to him. Why not quit a job like that? because most of us aren't born with 10000 turbine PIC, and our bills aren't payed by mommy and daddy.

Don't preach here Papps. We have been there...that was just one of the speedbumps on the way to a job here. I won't apologize for the benefits and rightfully-expected things we get here. We have it coming. We workes our a$$es off to get here, keep our end of the deal, and expect the company to do the same.

 

[gunfyter]

Did somebody say something about free beer?

 

[acaTerry]

Did somebody say something about free beer?

Not for rotorheads...

 

[RTRHD]

Did somebody say something about free beer?

Where?

 

[acaTerry]

Look one post up there....

 

[doh]

which fracs give meals to crews?
if you get meals do you also get perdiem?

We get great food at Flex and we keep our per diem. It can be considered as part of the compensation package if you wish. Or you could say that it is to managements benefit to keep the plane moving. Whatever, it beats the heck out of where I came from and I look at it as "free food and I keep my per diem"! Every body can have an opinion about it.:beer:

 

[doh]

Did somebody say something about free beer?

Mmmmmm, beer!:beer: