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Old 09-14-2013 | 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
They could be made to work, but, would require a lot of thought and negotiation to be done safely and pay well enough. Considerations:
(1) Safety - fatigue
(2) Safety - a lot of nontowered airport stuff
(3) Safety - Temp / Dewpoint spread at it's lowest, more diverts
(4) Safety - some sort of compensatory rest + limitation on how many could be scheduled.
(5) Min time behind door (6:00 makes these doable with an afternoon nap)
(6) PAY -
Daily credit applied calendar day, or
ALV + if line of CDO's = < ALV

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If we are going to recover express type flying, this is the type flying a lot of them do.

Just some ideas.

Meanwhile, the passengers ride DCI flown by crews on their third consecutive 'standup' consisting of a 3 hour each-way flight to and from a mountainous outstation, with 4 hours at the hotel. If that isn't a double-standard...