Originally Posted by SoCalGuy

Looks as if your boy Al Gore, along with the box-top cereal decoder ring failed you. Is the "Tin-Foil Cap" still on?? Since your so keen to know where I'm based, it's actually IAH.....No secret.....made that available in past-posts.

Regarding your question.....I wouldn't know about B757 fuel stops out of IAH, we don't fly that a/c outta IAH to Europe....Only the 767 & 777. Since your curious on the topic of fuel stops & pay, it goes a little something like this.....

Just as you "r"UAL Pilots get paid by the minute, so do we. Here's the kicker.....When I was based up in EWR doing a lot of BCN & TXL X-ings, it was not uncommon to show up in Ops for the return leg from Europe to find a "scheduled fuel stop" added to the release even before you departed to head Westbound. The beauty/rub of the deal resulting from that is a 'mid-sequence modification' (IE-a scheduled stop for gas/additional 'leg' added after the sequence had already started), it just meant 150% pay on ALL "OVERS" resulting within that sequence, this is a contractual clause. Of course, Jeff and his minions require pilots to submit a pay-claim to get the 150%, just another hoop in the POS CBA. The added bonus was this situation added an additional landing. Most of the "good Captains" would give the IRO the 'odd' landing which made it nice to the 'professional IROs' to grab a bounce.

To recap your Fuel Stop Question......
1) General Overs on unscheduled stops, not a bad thing.
2) Mid-Sequence Mods resulting in 150% pay on 'overs', even a better thing.
3) IRO's getting a chance to swing a landing in the deal depending on the Capt.....Doesn't get much better.

Well, I'll say we've drifted this thread straight into the ground, but I hope that quenches all of your questions regarding the topic.