Flexjet at Millington, TN
10-02-2008, 07:20 PM
#11
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2. Full flights. Buying tickets at the last minute can sometimes mean few choices (like the $929 first class seat they had to buy me a while back). Also means lots of middle seats - a real joy after six days on the road.
3. Cancelled flights. That almost always pushes us to the next day, costing the company big bucks - and us a day off.
4. Fewer choices. Especially on the last day, we want to get home. Stinks when you get to a city and the next flight out is five hours away. Or involves a double connect on Southwest to get from OAK to FLL.
10-02-2008, 08:14 PM
#12
Gets Weekends Off
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1. Late flights. They plan on us arriving at least two hours early - but my flight into EWR last week was almost four hours late. Owners will not be happy to hear their flight is delayed because Continental was having issues.
2. Full flights. Buying tickets at the last minute can sometimes mean few choices (like the $929 first class seat they had to buy me a while back). Also means lots of middle seats - a real joy after six days on the road.
3. Cancelled flights. That almost always pushes us to the next day, costing the company big bucks - and us a day off.
4. Fewer choices. Especially on the last day, we want to get home. Stinks when you get to a city and the next flight out is five hours away. Or involves a double connect on Southwest to get from OAK to FLL.
2. Full flights. Buying tickets at the last minute can sometimes mean few choices (like the $929 first class seat they had to buy me a while back). Also means lots of middle seats - a real joy after six days on the road.
3. Cancelled flights. That almost always pushes us to the next day, costing the company big bucks - and us a day off.
4. Fewer choices. Especially on the last day, we want to get home. Stinks when you get to a city and the next flight out is five hours away. Or involves a double connect on Southwest to get from OAK to FLL.
USMCFLYR
10-06-2008, 03:07 PM
#13
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Joined APC: Mar 2008
Posts: 23
The company is very very very anti bases, yet nobody really knows why. they say they have all these conditions that need to be met but they wont come out and say what they are. Some pilots have done their own studies and proven that if they were based at XYZ, the company would have save X hundreds of dollars in airline costs per month. It doesn't make any sense. Every other frac has tons of bases and we have 4 or 5, and the ones we do have are some of the highest cost airports in the country.
Get with it Flex! open some more bases!
Get with it Flex! open some more bases!
10-06-2008, 04:55 PM
#14
Gets Weekends Off
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The company is very very very anti bases, yet nobody really knows why. they say they have all these conditions that need to be met but they wont come out and say what they are. Some pilots have done their own studies and proven that if they were based at XYZ, the company would have save X hundreds of dollars in airline costs per month. It doesn't make any sense. Every other frac has tons of bases and we have 4 or 5, and the ones we do have are some of the highest cost airports in the country.
Get with it Flex! open some more bases!
Get with it Flex! open some more bases!
My whole reason I want them to expand into other bases is purely and wholly SELFISHNESS! I would like the opportunity to apply, but for right now I have an area of the country that I would like to move to and they don't have a base there. So here's to corssing the fingers and watching and hoping for more domiciles or bases or whatever you want to call them.USMCFLYR
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