Originally Posted by
PinnacleFO
How Do you guys think the new rest rules will affect spirit? I know you guys do a lot of back side of the clock flying, do those trips fall within the new rules?
Most if not all redeyes originating in FLL are out and backs. We have an ORD-LAS-ORD in the middle of the night, West Coast to FLL redeyes, LIM to FLL, and LAS to DTW. I'm sure there are a few more but that's all I can think of right now. It doesn't look like we will be effected by them and the contract does have specific areas covering night flying and how long we can be on duty. Just from glancing at it, the contract might be more limiting for night flying than the new rules. From what I understand scheduling has listened to our fatigue reports and tried to eliminate things like FLL-MCO-FLL followed by a redeye as I have not seen one of those in months. There was talk about a crew swap for the ORD-LAS-ORD but it looks like its still in the January schedule. The union has not put anything out on it yet but that's not unusual for us. Plus, they have a few years to pick it apart.