JuneYao Airlines

[Ted Revis]

Juneyao Airlines Co., Ltd, is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Juneyao Group. Their headquarters are located in Shanghai. JuneYao Airlines began operation on September 25, 2006. After more than a year of operation, JuneYao Airlines continues to develop fast and steadily, which lays a strong foundation for his future development. After founding Juneyao Airlines, Juneyao Group purchased Okay Airways in Tianjin and had invested in United Eagle Airlines Co., Ltd.

Juneyao Airlines has more than 600 employees, including more than 100 pilots and more than 260 pilot students in schools. Juneyao operates more than 30 flight lines now and will add routes to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Korea and Japan in 2009. The airline is scheduled to fly to North America, South America and Europe beginning in 2010.

As a newly founded Airline, Juneyao Airlines welcomes experienced, professional, conscientious pilots with high professional ethics join them. Juneyao would like to grow together with these pilots and cultivate the pilots at the same time. JuneYao will offer the opportunity to the foreign pilots who have international flight experience and heavyweight aircraft experience to upgrade to Airbus A330 in the future.

Now Juneyao owns eight Airbus 320 aircraft. The Airline has purchased two additional Airbus aircraft that will be delivered at the end of 2008. Another four to six aircraft will be placed in service during 2009. JuneYao Airlines will have a total 24 to 28 Airbus A320 by year of 2010. The company’s business plan is to have more than 100 aircraft by 2017. This will include three A330 aircraft.

[sal cucuzza]

is this job commutable? what type of rostering are they following?

[Ted Revis]

Sal, JuneYao's schedule provides for 22 days of flying and either 8 or 9 days off depending on the number of days in the month. With approval from the airline, JuneYao also permits two of periods to be reversed allowing for more days off.

[Capnaux]

Ted,
So what you're saying is, the most one can get off is 4-5 days in a row if worked around two periods. Is this correct?
Is 4 on/2 off the standard, typical schedule throughout an entire month? If so, I see no room to either pick up extra flying, build a block of days together, etc.

What I'm really interested in is, "What is a typical line pilot's schedule for the month?" Is the schedule typically built with more than the minimum (8-9) days off??

[Ted Revis]

Hi Eric,
The two days of rest after each four days of work is a CAAC requirement related totally to safety and not related to the monthly time off. JuneYao has moved to a program where captains work for 22 days and then are off for the remaining days of the month. The 22 day program is new and we have not seen the implementation yet. At JuneYao, the flight schedule is available at the end of the week (Friday, I think) for the following week.
Ted