Crew Housing

Westwind provides a company house as overnight accommodations at Grand Canyon. Pilots staying overnight at Page and Sedona and all other locations will have hotel rooms. All employees are expected to follow company policy for company housing.

If you need to go into the park for any reason, including shopping at the General Store or visiting the Community Rec Center, just tell the fee collector at the entrance station that you’re local and they’ll let you in without paying.

Flight crews stay in the crew housing at our GCN base on overnights away from the company home base (DVT). If all the beds are taken, Operations will get hotel rooms for the overflow. The GCN crew house is located within walking distance of the airport, and there is a Westwinf van that available for pilot use. If you overnight in Sedona or anywhere without housing you will stay in a hotel and get a rental car, Uber, or a taxi.

Report any issues with the houses to the Chief Pilot or Assistant Chief Pilot.

The crew houses are for pilots on duty only. Pilots cannot stay in the crew house on their days off unless they’ve received permission from the Assistant Chief Pilot, Chief Pilot, or Director of Operations. Likewise, pilots may not have overnight guests (non-Westwind) without permission.

When you are staying at the house, leave the house, the bedding, the bathrooms, and the kitchen clean and neat. It’s just common sense and basic courtesy to your fellow pilots.

Specifically, make sure you put a sheet on the bed you are using, even if you’re just having a nap. The company provides one set of bedding (quilt, top and bottom sheet, pillow, and pillowcase) for each bed. It is not someone else’s responsibility to make sure you have sheets. You can find them in one of the closets or on the beds. When you leave the house and are overnighting somewhere else, make sure you take your sheets off the bed and place them in the hamper along with your towel.

Some pilots prefer to have their own bedding and/or towels. You can store personal bedding and non-food items in a closet in a box with your name on it.

Everyone is welcome to use the stove and oven to cook. Be considerate of your fellow pilots and clean up after yourself. Everyone needs to share chores such as trash removal, cleaning the bathrooms, sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming. There is no maid service!

Unless you have an agreement with another pilot, the food at the house is not “fair game” – it belongs to someone. You need to buy your own food and drink, and put your name on them.

House Supplies and Maintenance

The company provides cleaning supplies, dish soap, laundry soap, toilet paper, and paper towels, as well as bedding and towels. Report any maintenance issues or supplies that need restocking to the Chief Pilot, who oversees the houses. If a house is out of an item or two, borrow the company credit card from the Station Manager or use an airplane car and go buy it yourself.

GCN

275 Airport Circle Tusayan, Arizona 86023

The house has a keypad for access. Get the combination from another pilot or the Chief Pilot. Always lock the house when you’re the last person to leave.

Trash at GCN goes in the dumpster about 200 yards east of the house, toward the old airport beacon. There is also a recycle bin along this road.

Winter (November-March)

Everyone who is leaving the GCN pilot houses for the day must make sure the heat is on and the thermostat is set to 55-60 so that the pipes don’t freeze. Also, with that setting, the house stays warm enough that arriving pilots can warm it up quickly. On the other hand, DON’T leave the heat at a high setting when leaving for the day. The house may be be unoccupied for several weeks, and high thermostat settings unnecessarily run up our power bill.