Vacations
I work in a single-aircraft corporate operation, and my company has an excellent benefits package, of which a pretty good vacation policy is part. For the first five years, two weeks per year, increasing a day a year to three weeks at year ten, and increasing a half-day a year to four weeks at year twenty. After ten years, one week may be carried over, and after twenty, two weeks may be carried over.
Being a two pilot, one airplane operation, I am on call most of the time, so I don't have the airline option of using regular off days for vacation. However, we usually have some sort of upgrade or major refurbishment scheduled for our airplane every year or so. This past year, it was new paint ... the airplane was down five weeks, so I had an instant five-week paid vacation, above and beyond my alloted vacation time. In the coming year, we are looking at two to three weeks of down time for avionics upgrades ... so, another couple of weeks over and above alloted vacation time.
And give Falcon Capt a rest ... he has good reasons (as do I) for choosing not to discuss his employer on a public forum. I for one am happy that I'm in a quality corporate position at my experience level, I'm thrilled that Falcon has an excellent career-level position based on his posts, and I'm hopeful that as my experience advances I'll be fortunate enough to find a similar career-level job in the future.
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