Last night as I sat in “my spot” at the airport, there was a storm surrounding the terminal area….literally. Planes were holding and diverting. I tracked one flight that was normally just 2 hours 20 minutes that took 4 hours 35 minutes due to holding and delays. I thought for sure I would be sent [...]

Pilots as a group are really cheap people. We take anything free. I haven’t left a hotel room yet without taking the pen and paper they leave in there. I have pens all over my car, kit bag, office, suitcase…you get the idea.  My wife bought a storage organizer for all the hotel lotion, shampoo [...]

Every month I put in various request to crew scheduling. Most of these request are to move my reserve days around to get certain weekends off. Normally they are very slow responding to me. I would submit a request on a Sunday and not hear back until Wednesday. At which time I would usually get [...]

I was browsing the web. Found a position for a 767 First Officer. I don’t qualify yet (I only have 1400 hours), but maybe by the end of 2010/spring 2011. Just an idea. The pay is high and they have a commuting allowance! My wife is learning Japanese. The pay is high enough to maybe [...]

Today is my 6th day on reserve in a row. This is abnormal and not built into a monthly schedule. I moved my reserve days around this month in order to have long weekends off elsewhere in the month. This previous weekend was the first time I worked on a weekend since February I think. [...]

The overnight was indeed short. I got a good 5 hours of sleep. My alarm went off at 4:40AM. I showered the night before so by 4:50AM I was walking out the door. The breakfast at this hotel leaves MUCH to be desired. The “fresh” fruit hasn’t been fresh in a while. The oranges were [...]