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And aren't on call on my days off,
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Nope, me neither...
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don't wash the airplane on my days off,
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In my 15+ years of flying I have NEVER washed an airplane...
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don't go to recurrent on my days off
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Nope, me neither, as a matter of fact I get to pick the dates I want to go to recurrent, not the company.
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get catered crew food+per diem
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Yep, get this too.. I swear if I have to eat another deluxe seafood tray I am going to explode!
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stay in better hotels than
most corporate gigs.
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I wasn't aware their were many hotels that exceed the 5 star rating... We stay at the same hotels as the executives... My favorite is probably the St. Regis in Beijing, the personal butler service is outstanding.
St. Regis - Beijing, China
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Not pigeon holed in one section of the country/planet.
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Not sure where you were trying to go with this one... I'll give you a hint, I'm not based in Beijing... Nearly 50% of our flying is International (Europe, South America, Central America, Asia, Africa, Middle East, South Pacific)
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Have licensed meteorologist and dispatchers for support.
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Yup, so does Air Routing... One call does it all...
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Flyer newer a/c.
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Hhmmm... All of our aircraft were bought brand new, all are full glass including HGS HUDs and Auto-Throttles...
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More different types of aircraft for advancement.
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Yeah, we are stuck flying our 2 types of "old" aircraft...
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Have two weeks off per month. Average 2-3 legs per day.
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I average 12 days of work per month (I am at HOME the other 18-19 days)
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200,000 to 300,000 hotel/airline points per year for
space positive free vacations
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Yep, we get all the points too... My Marriott account has about 500,000 points right now and my other accounts have plenty for multiple "free" vacations too...
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No, there are two 0's on Mach .900
Actually it's normally .91 but what's 10 kts among friends.
The only difference is that same direction traffic is moving backwards in our windscreen and TCAS. M.85 is long range criuse and feels like doing 35mph on the freeway.
From the duh huh things said by ATC column....
-EJAXXX could you keep your speed up?
-we're doing .91 now, do you need more?
-uh................................ nevermind.
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Thats funny, several times I have had to slow for a Citation X in front of us... Seems you guys have a Vmo somewhere in the 330-340 range... ATC didn't want us doing 370 KIAS because we were catching the X in front of us.
How come you didn't mention your huge paycheck??? I had lunch with an NJA CE-750 Capt about 2 years ago... He had 6 years with the company and was making about $55k/year... I was shocked...
I know, I know... "When we get the new contract"...
I wasn't ripping on NJA in my earlier post, just letting him know there is a difference between Fractional and Corporate flying. But since you decided you wanted to cover some of the finer points, I felt obliged to answer.