Schedules

[WhenPigsFly]

Does anyone know of any Large Corporate Flight Departments that have some sort of "fixed" flight schedule for pilots.

One that allows the pilots to fly part time, flex time or something like this? I know that some of the Quarter Shares have a 7 on, 7 off schedule. Could someone let me know which ones have which and perhaps how many pilots they employ?

Trying to document and help figure out a new flexible scheduling system for a larger corporate flight department.

Thanks.

 

[TurboS7]

Seems like there is a guy bragging about it on some other thread, must be nice trying to find out which ALPA contract he has.

 

[English]

huh?

 

[na265]

From pilots I have talked to about the way their schedules work, it is usually like this: They will know when trips are, where they are going and who the the crew is at least a week in advance. It seems to me that the larger flight depts are run pretty much like a small airline. I work in a small flight dept with 4 pilots. Our sched is fixed about two weeks in advance. I usually fly 1-3 days/wk, with about 3 RONS a month. We seldom work weekends and we have all holidays off. I read what Turbo wrote on the other thread, and, belive me I know I am VERY fortunate to be where I am. Oh, we have the holidays off bc we are a govt contractor. Govt don't work, I don't work!

 

[Flying Illini]

Govt don't work, I don't work!

Does that mean you don't work?!

 

[fatburger]

I work for a large corporate flight department that has two divisions. One called corporate and the other is shuttle. By the end of the year all pilots (20) will rotate between both. Two to three weeks on one side then two to three weeks on the other.

The shuttle side is great because it is scheduled work. M-F with weekends off and a 4 to 5 hours on duty depending on weather and such. Corporate knows their scheds. in advance by about a month. Although they are on "standy by" M-F 8am to 6pm should there be any "pop up" trips.

We have 3 different types of aircraft and everyone will be trained on 2, thus the rotation back and forth. One of the aircraft is the BBJ and is crewed by only 4 pilots and that will not change. They also fly another type if needed. That leaves 16 to fly the other two types. The new system should make scheduling a heck of a lot easier for the CP.

This probably didn't help you much, but I figured it couldn't hurt.

fatburger

 

[A Squared]

fatburger,

did you fly the DC-6, or the DHC-6?


regards

 

[fatburger]

DC-6............a grand total of 4 legs. Two FLL-MYGF (freeport if I remember correctly) roundtrips.

Flew baby chickens to the island. I was bug-eyed the whole time. Captain let me fly the dead legs home.

 

[A Squared]

I bet that will be a couple of flights you'll remember as long as you live.