Question for you Airline Guys

Usually don't overnight in your own base unless it's an IROP/cancel. But typically, you are responsible for lodging in your own base before/after a trip if you are a commuter.
 
Just this last month I switched bases. My first trip out of my new base, my Captain times out at my old base.. We all got rooms. If I was still based there it would no room and back to the crash pad as I'm a commuter.. The following week, ground school in the the same city where I am now based and also commute to, no travel day and no hotel room.... I was on my own getting there and for lodging... You guys can probably guess what airline I work for...lol
 
Let's keep it real simple.

I'm DTW based.

I'm on my own accord to show up to DTW 90 minutes prior to departure. Regardless of traffic, jumpseats, loads non-revving or a zombie apocalypse in-progress.

When my rotation ends in Detroit, I am fully on my own in terms of getting back home, whether it be Livonia or Timbuktu.
 
XJT provides a hotel room wherever you are after a cancel or IROP event. So you start a 4 day trip and all of day 1 cancels, you receive a hotel in your base that night. (ERJ side anyway)
 
C5 will give you a hotel in the event of a cancelled overnight in base if it creates a min rest plus one hour overnight. I have also been successful in them putting me up in a room by agreeing to come in early on reserve to create such a scenario.
 
upup89 said:
C5 will give you a hotel in the event of a cancelled overnight in base if it creates a min rest plus one hour overnight. I have also been successful in them putting me up in a room by agreeing to come in early on reserve to create such a scenario.
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In my opinion, this is the way it should be. If your schedule creates an issue where you may have a min rest issue with your schedule, company should be required offer a hotel. If you are in domicile, wouldn't you rather sleep in your own bed? At your own place? With your own stuff? I am a commuter, and I'd take the hotel in base 9 out of 10 times, but guys who aren't commuters may rather go home for the night. So offer it on a min rest issue to try and stem off the fatigue calls. Seems like smart business to me.
 
It sounded to me like the OP was talking about commuting in for back-to-back day trips, in which case he'd be on his own for lodging between the two separately awarded sequences.
 
mshunter said:
In my opinion, this is the way it should be. If your schedule creates an issue where you may have a min rest issue with your schedule, company should be required offer a hotel. If you are in domicile, wouldn't you rather sleep in your own bed? At your own place? With your own stuff? I am a commuter, and I'd take the hotel in base 9 out of 10 times, but guys who aren't commuters may rather go home for the night. So offer it on a min rest issue to try and stem off the fatigue calls. Seems like smart business to me.
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Depends. My house is a 45 minute drive from the employee lot, and it's a 20 minute ride to the employee lot from the terminal. It'd usually be quicker to take a quick van ride to a local hotel.
 
Derg said:
Let's keep it real simple.

I'm DTW based.

I'm on my own accord to show up to DTW 90 minutes prior to departure. Regardless of traffic, jumpseats, loads non-revving or a zombie apocalypse in-progress.

When my rotation ends in Detroit, I am fully on my own in terms of getting back home, whether it be Livonia or Timbuktu.
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That is too simple! I demand a duty rig. Plus an acronym that I don't know. Thanks.
 
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