Originally Posted by
DeadHead
This whole extending a REG pilot at the end of his rotation is complete bull. Extending a pilot to pick up extra legs on his last day should pay green slip pay at the very least. This whole REG line pilot being used as a hot reserve is a big ol' pile of malarkey. I get the occasional reroute mid trip or delays outside the company's control, but the extra legs added on is extremely jive turkey.
Somewhat happened last trip for me. On the last leg (SEA-SLC) we had a rolling MX issue and the jet was taken out of service. Instead of a deadhead back to base and replace us with another crew, they put us up for 12 hrs and had us show at 5AM to fly the jet back.
We were back at base about 17 hrs past scheduled release. They could have got us back to base that night, but being a weekend staffed with no RES, we got the short end of the stick!
I hate losing a day off!!
