Originally Posted by
tr4a
Not all of your redeyes. In Side letter 14:
"Multi-leg red eye duty periods constructed in the Planning process will not normally have ground time between flight segments that exceed two (2) hours, and in no case will ground time be scheduled for more than two hours and thirty minutes (2:30). (This provision satisfies the restriction on Continuous Duty Overnights.)"
Maybe it's the labels that are confusing, but you do know there is a difference between a redeye and a CDO. A redeye is a flight usually from the west coast to a destination east of the Mississippi which arrives around sunrise. Your duty period usually starts after 2200L. On the other hand, a CDO (also called a stand up) can be between any 2 points, but has an intervening short stay in a hotel, 5-7 hours, which doesn't reset the duty clock as it keeps running (hence the "continuous" part of CDO). Usually a redeye is one leg. CDO's are usually round trips between city pairs (for AT it's ATL-XXX-ATL) during the same duty period.
In any case, I hope SWA takes the redeyes and SL14 prohibits CDO's (I personally don't think they are safe, so I avoid them at all costs).