When do you get your monthly schedules?

your hero · Post by **your hero** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:32 pm

Well, there are 4 days left in the month, and our group of 90 some pilots still dont know what they're doing on thursday...
Just wondering when other pilots (from companies big and small) get there monthly sched's?
Is this the norm, or should we be really pissed?

your hero · Post by **your hero** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:44 pm

by the way, we're a 703, 704, and 705 operation...

QFE · Post by **QFE** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:46 pm

By 17:00 on the 25th of the month.

Pith Helmet · Post by **Pith Helmet** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:47 pm

your hero wrote:by the way, we're a 703, 704, and 705 operation...

With a Capital "P"!

cedar · Post by **cedar** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:50 pm

On the 15th no exceptions, works great for a social life 703 and 705 aprox 60 pilots.

Captain Crunch · Post by **Captain Crunch** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:56 pm

cedar wrote:On the 15th no exceptions, works great for a social life 703 and 705 aprox 60 pilots.

thats refreshing

fougapilot · Post by **fougapilot** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:01 pm

We must work for the same guys... still waiting on mine... The worse I saw was the 5th for THAT month, not the next.....

Ralliart · Post by **Ralliart** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:14 pm

Around the 20th, 704/705

ski_bum · Post by **ski_bum** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:26 pm

Schedule? What is this?

gr8gazu · Post by **gr8gazu** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:46 pm

Once per year. 2 week on, 1 week off rotation...

Swerved · Post by **Swerved** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:48 pm

Generally, unless major changes/expansion underway, first draft comes out on the 15th, official schedule on the 20th.

Swerved.

your hero · Post by **your hero** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:59 pm

are there any penalties when the schedule is late for other carriers out there? Are you unionized?

Odysseus · Post by **Odysseus** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:49 pm

Where I work, the schedule's like the weather, always changing around. We have a joke which I'll share with you to describe the situation.
The first draft schedule comes out last minute, probably last friday of the month. Its kinda like a TAF, gives you about an idea what to expect, but nothing too concrete.
On sunday, we get our assignments for the week, it details what the situation is right now, kinda like a METAR, but you still don't know what's up exactly. The schedule could change any time, going from sunny skies to thundershowers in an instant.
Then when your on your sched in the middle of the week, maybe during your crew rest, you get a call from dispatch telling you to get going to who knows where right away, thats the new SPECI that just came out.
That's for a 703 operation.

ei ei owe · Post by **ei ei owe** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:56 pm

No WJ, no schedule......why....?

MyWave · Post by **MyWave** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:12 pm

It's 15:13 Pacific time on 24 February as I write this.

Still waiting for my March schedule....

your hero · Post by **your hero** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:19 pm

MyWave wrote:It's 15:13 Pacific time on 24 February as I write this.

Still waiting for my March schedule....

Do you work at Perimeter too?

jjal · Post by **jjal** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:27 pm

we know tomorrow's (vague) scheduling as we leave work the day before. Some days, we get a call that day. Granted, we're a charter outfit...

All I know is I get Xmas off, come hell, high water or my letter of resignation.

Dave T · Post by **Dave T** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:31 pm

Weekly Schedule For a mainly Scheduled Company.

Used to come out Thursday night, many changes could be expected.

These days comes out Sunday night, and will probably change by Monday afternoon lol.

Tough on the Social Life!

osprey · Post by **osprey** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:28 pm

8 hours before the sked left today

Dockjock · Post by **Dockjock** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:16 pm

When I worked at CMA we could set our calender by the "Late Roster" memo that was issued on the 25th of every month (the day the roster was supposed to be out published). I think one guy actually started collecting the memos and had a full year's worth at one point. Pathetic part was the route network hadn't changed in about a year, we did very few charters, and faithfully 2 pilots would leave every month. Must need a rocket surgeon to figure out that pattern!

Nightflight · Post by **Nightflight** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:28 pm

Odysseus wrote:Where I work, the schedule's like the weather, always changing around. We have a joke which I'll share with you to describe the situation.
The first draft schedule comes out last minute, probably last friday of the month. Its kinda like a TAF, gives you about an idea what to expect, but nothing too concrete.
On sunday, we get our assignments for the week, it details what the situation is right now, kinda like a METAR, but you still don't know what's up exactly. The schedule could change any time, going from sunny skies to thundershowers in an instant.
Then when your on your sched in the middle of the week, maybe during your crew rest, you get a call from dispatch telling you to get going to who knows where right away, thats the new SPECI that just came out.
That's for a 703 and 704 operation.

That's freak'n hilarious and a great description. Hehe!
It also has a very familar ring to it. I might have worked there one time. Made a lot of money too! NOT!!!

altiplano · Post by **altiplano** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:15 pm

When do you get your monthly schedules?

haha - I wish -

I find out tonight where I'm going tomorrow. And if things don't get to fecked up I can guess with some certainty what days off I'll be having every month...

Phillip Banks · Post by **Phillip Banks** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:50 pm

Schedule haha

I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow. We get our schedule the day before it happens. We are a 704 with about 60 pilots and our sched is constantly changing.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:12 am

By 6pm the day before is the current goal....sometimes much much later than that.... You know when your days off are, however what you're doing tomorrow is a mystery.

Sched changes regularily, and usually crews will be called when there are last minute changes....usually, but not always.

wingspan · Post by **wingspan** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:42 am

Odysseus wrote:Where I work, the schedule's like the weather, always changing around. We have a joke which I'll share with you to describe the situation.
The first draft schedule comes out last minute, probably last friday of the month. Its kinda like a TAF, gives you about an idea what to expect, but nothing too concrete.
On sunday, we get our assignments for the week, it details what the situation is right now, kinda like a METAR, but you still don't know what's up exactly. The schedule could change any time, going from sunny skies to thundershowers in an instant.
Then when your on your sched in the middle of the week, maybe during your crew rest, you get a call from dispatch telling you to get going to who knows where right away, thats the new SPECI that just came out.
That's for a 703 and 704 operation.

We are only a 703