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Old 04-29-2007, 09:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Can someone explain what a standup is? It's been referenced a bunch but I'm still learning the lingo...

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Old 04-30-2007, 02:55 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I think it is a hotel stay between flights on a trip that is so short you can't really do anything with it. You basically don't have time to relax, so they just call it a standup. Correct me if wrong.
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Old 04-30-2007, 03:06 AM   #3 (permalink)
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A standup is a "Continuous Duty Overnight" (also called a highspeed or COD).

It's when a crew flies the last flight of the night out to a city, and the first flight back to the hub in the morning. They are on duty all night long, but get sent to the hotel for a (very) short period of "rest."
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Old 04-30-2007, 08:10 AM   #4 (permalink)
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At a majority of the regional airlines you will have no other choice to do a "highspeed" or "standup." There are advantages to these too: like stated above, your the very last flight out of your hub, so you depart at like 930pm and arrive in your dest around 1100pm. Your flight the next morning dep. at 7am so you can see that by the time you get to the hotel and the ride back in the morning you don't get much sleep. There were a couple that I didn't even take my uniform off, I just brushed my teeth in the morning and went, which is surprisingly common.

The advantages though are that when you arrive back into your hub city the next morning at like 8am or earlier, you have all day to do whatever you want and in my case that was a second job, so I actually bid for all highspeed lines. hope this helps.
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Old 04-30-2007, 04:04 PM   #5 (permalink)
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They suck. You look like a vampire eventually. I wish the FAA would "Outlaw" them.
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