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Regional airline, the man saidJust need good fatigue rules.
Regional airline, the man saidJust need good fatigue rules.
The perfect layover lengths DO exist.15-17 hours or 32-34 hours
This! Just getting online and complaining about it does nothing (not talking about the OP). I see it all the time on our union forum. Hotels, bad trips, stuff that should be ASAP’d honestly, etc. If it isn’t documented formally it never happened according to the company and the union has no ammo to fight with.Even if you don't call in fatigued, FILE A FATIGUE REPORT with your bargaining agent! Data, data, DATA!!
You never have to be fatigued to file a report if you feel it's a bad trip.
I had one last month with 3 circadian flips and 3 24-hour layovers (which suck in the night cargo world), including an 0200-0200 layover...so no good opportunity to get 2 sleeps. Oh and approximately 40 minutes to grab a nap in IND before turning to the west coast. Filed several reports on that one.
This is my regular schedule at the zoo. I have a show time before 1700 maybe once a month. I just shifted my sleep schedule indefinitely; the kids know not to wake me before 10 when I’m home. It… mostly works.We do short backs at Eskimo and I actually prefer them. Redeye out, day sleep, evening flight back. 2 duty periods in 24ish hours but better than trying to flop sleep schedules. Granted I've only had to do them sporadically. A whole month of them would wreck me I think but a lot of people love them.
[QUOTE="Maurus, post: 3296346, member: 5599”]Just make sure it is the one that wont get you in trouble...
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LA's Newark redeye has been awesome. 805pm check in, takeoff 905pm. Land 215am west coast time, 515 am east coast. Day sleep. Min 10 to 10:30 hr rest. Report and depart at ~5pm and land back in LA at 8pm. Literally a 24 hr TAFB for 11.5 hrs pay.
I love it!
No one seems to like them, so I do them a lot. Still have 2 more EWR redeyes in August coming up.