What is the price to pay, sacrifices and the life of being a AirAsia Airlines Captain, co-pilot?

Question

What is the price to pay, sacrifices and the life of being a AirAsia Airlines Captain, co-pilot?

Answer 1

I am not sure exactly what you are asking, but as for the "price to pay" for any flight crew member of any major air carrier as is follows:

a.  Holidays - you will most likely be working many, many holidays.  There will be many where you will not be with friends and family.  Therefore, your friends and family will more likely be members of the airline community.

b.  While it may sound wonderful to be able to travel to many different places in the world, you are WORKING those trips.  When you arrive at your destination, there may be a 36-hour layover, but due to jet-lag and attempting to keep your body clock on your time, you will probably sleep in the day and not travel much when you are in many of these "exotic locales".  

c.  If you are a Cabin Attendant, you are "walking from your departure airport to these exotic locations."  You put up with people with unfounded fears which show itself with signs of depression, anxiety, or even anger/air rage.  Fear, mixed with alcohol and a bit of hypoxia due to being in a pressurized cabin for a higher altitude than sea level, the symptoms can reach a much higher level.

d.  Some air carriers have your hours working on "engine time", not the time you started your day checking into the dispatch office.  Therefore, you may be at your gate, having been at the airport for the past 2 hours preflighting, and after waiting for permission for pushback, due to weather, you may not even start to spool up the engines.  Guess what!  No work time put toward your monthly maximum.

e.  Remember the adage, "Flying is 99% boredom and 1% terror."  Flying IFR, at night, with windshear will seem like far more than 1% while you are in the middle of it all.

Now, having named a few examples of sacrifices of working in the industry, please remember the benefits as well.  You are working with some of the highest trained professionals in the world, who work as a well-oiled machine to get people from point to point in the safest manner possible.  There is a bond among those who work in the aviation industry which is found rarely in any other industry.  

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