Originally Posted by
chrisl137
We fly technicians around to do skilled work on our equipment. 6 times a month is on the high side, but not unheard of, more typical is fly 3-4 RTs and be away from home for 3 weeks. They're often hourly and aren't even allowed flexibility to stop between the airport and hotel check-in for food.
I was eavesdropping on a conversation between one of these guys and the next person in line while waiting for Immigration at LHR. He'd been in at least countries in the past couple of weeks and had more travel coming up. Didn't envy him whatever FF miles and status he had at all.