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→  March 27, 2009 Comments Off

Found these on a forum. A little humor to my day. Pilot Rules The PILOT always make THE RULES. THE RULES are subject to change at any time without prior notification. No CO-PILOT can possibly know all THE RULES. If the PILOT suspects the CO-PILOT knows all THE RULES, he must immediately change some or [...]

→  March 24, 2009 4

My wife and I had a great trip to Las Vegas. We both lost a lot of money….but had a great time with our friends. Being able to travel whenever/where ever is the best perk I can think of. Which really came in handy. The flight out to Vegas was fine. We were able to [...]

→  March 20, 2009 8

My Captain and I arrived last night expecting to find our own cab to the hotel (which was 2 hours away!). We both kinda wandered around this little airport when she went outside to check. I was behind the ticket counter (the airport was closing) looking up hotel information. Another employee came up and I [...]

→  March 19, 2009 3

The deadhead flight was fine. The flight was on an ERJ. I haven’t deadheaded on one in a while. The Captain and I both had seats in the ‘C’ seats. We sat where we thought the ‘C’ side was. Wrong. Passengers corrected us. When I found my correct seat I was at the window next [...]

→  March 19, 2009 Comments Off

I was relaxing watching Seinfeld…doing my airport standby routine. I checked the flights. Everything was covered. I checked my schedule…and then my jaw dropped. The originally had me deadheading to Colorado on my mainline partner airline and then deadheading again on another airline. Why? Well one of our CRJs is stuck in Colorado. We only [...]

→  March 19, 2009 Comments Off

Do you still get paid reasonably with per diem if you don’t fly all week? obviously not as much as flight time but curious to know if its still worth while pay. This answer involves math. Math is not my “thing” so I will do my best. At my airline (and many regionals for that [...]