Question for the ACMI carriers...

[Draginass]

No one is looking down their nose at freight crews themselves (I used to be one myself . . . twice), but there's a lot of outfits that richly deserve their reputations.

Jumpseating on a freighter is generally a good deal if it happens to work out for you . . just not one that's used very much. In 4 years of flying international freight, I had a jumpseater just once. The point of the post was not to put the jumpseating privilege on the commerical pax carriers in jeprody.

 

[El Piloto Chido]

No one is looking down their nose at freight crews themselves (I used to be one myself . . . twice), but there's a lot of outfits that richly deserve their reputations.

EXACTLY. The flight crews out there do the best they can with what they've got- most of them are d*mn fine sticks and stand up folks. It's the anti-pilot management that makes these certain outfits what they are: cutting corners on MX, sticking you in a cheap motel in gangland, docking your paycheck, ect. I've been there, and I'm probably STILL there by some accounts.