Fractional pilot travelling tips?
12-31-2007, 03:51 PM
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Fractional pilot travelling tips?
Hey guys,
A few questions for ya.
How do you guys coordinate your bags with regards to travelling to your aircraft and then back home?
Do you check your roller board, and take your kit bag with you onboard?
Do you take both onboard? How about if you have a laptop in a separate bag? Now we're talking 3 bags...
Also, do you travel in full uniform or incognito?
Just a few questions from a Regional guy looking at getting into the Fractional world. When you're commuting and/or deadheading on company aircraft, you never have to worry about taking all your bags onboard.
Thanks guys.
A few questions for ya.
How do you guys coordinate your bags with regards to travelling to your aircraft and then back home?
Do you check your roller board, and take your kit bag with you onboard?
Do you take both onboard? How about if you have a laptop in a separate bag? Now we're talking 3 bags...
Also, do you travel in full uniform or incognito?
Just a few questions from a Regional guy looking at getting into the Fractional world. When you're commuting and/or deadheading on company aircraft, you never have to worry about taking all your bags onboard.
Thanks guys.
12-31-2007, 04:38 PM
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First of all, the uniform...we're supposed to travel in uniform because the schedule can change on a moment's notice and you need to be prepared to fly a trip.
We don't carry kit bags, per se. The Jepps and headsets are onboard the airplanes. All we're required to carry is the FOM, which fits nicely in my computer bag, along with passport, custom forms, etc. I usually check my rollerboard.
We don't carry kit bags, per se. The Jepps and headsets are onboard the airplanes. All we're required to carry is the FOM, which fits nicely in my computer bag, along with passport, custom forms, etc. I usually check my rollerboard.
01-01-2008, 12:36 PM
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Never check anything on the way to work. Travel in uniform on the way to work.
On the way home, I check my bag if I go to the airport in civies. Sometimes, if there is no rush, I'll clear security and then change on the way home.
I don't abide by the liquid/gel limitations and that is why I try to check in wearing my uniform. In a very few places, TSA has hassled me because I'm not 121, but that is rare.
On the way home, I check my bag if I go to the airport in civies. Sometimes, if there is no rush, I'll clear security and then change on the way home.
I don't abide by the liquid/gel limitations and that is why I try to check in wearing my uniform. In a very few places, TSA has hassled me because I'm not 121, but that is rare.
01-01-2008, 12:53 PM
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with the new tsa bs I check my bag, travel to work in uniform so im ready to work, but if the bag gets lost i sit and wait until its found before going anywhere, no other way to get the bag to you cause we never no where well wind up.
01-01-2008, 07:02 PM
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I checked my roller bag once and United broke a zipper. Never again.
I wore civilian clothes once and the TSA gave me a bunch of hassle about liquids and whatnot. Never again.
I bring it all and wear the uniform. If I'm heading home I'll wear the uniform to the gate and then slip into a bathroom and put on a polo shirt. Plus that way I can have a well deserved drink on the way home.
I wore civilian clothes once and the TSA gave me a bunch of hassle about liquids and whatnot. Never again.
I bring it all and wear the uniform. If I'm heading home I'll wear the uniform to the gate and then slip into a bathroom and put on a polo shirt. Plus that way I can have a well deserved drink on the way home.
01-02-2008, 04:30 PM
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Flexjet specifically tells pilots NOT to check bags on outbound flight; if you fly the airplines to EWR, and when the bag arrives 3 hours later you are in TPA, the airline will not have a strong desire to transport it!
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