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APC225
And how. UAL contract requires 16 hours of no duty before a redeye while there is nothing in the CAL contract therefore rest before a redeye is FAR mins. As a result, CAL flies first day in the morning, redeyes later that same day, lands early on second day. To do the same trip UAL has to fly on day one, rest on day two, and redeye late on day two into a third day. They gained a one-third efficiency in pilots doing redeyes simply by shifting redeyes to CAL. Hopefully this will go away under the new contract.
I thought the 737 had some new agreement where schedules would not be built with double duty periods in a single calender day. The 756 domestic still has a few trips with early morning flights West for 9 hours at the hotel then redeye to East Coast(IAD/EWR) for normal rest then back at it.