Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
No, he should not.
But I overheard an FO tell his captain in LGA the other day, "hey man, I'm really tired. I'm not going to be able to extend."
The captain said, "OK, I'll tell the dispatcher you won't extend. But I'm going to extend."
For every captain that "gets it," there are several weenies who don't.
I'm going to assume you're putting that out as a hypothetical, because I expect better from a DAL Captain, but that's precisely the kind of thing I am concerned about.
In my mind a crew has to agree to go along, meaning all members are OK with stepping up to an extension, as opposed to someone having to take the bullet on stopping an "auto-extension".
You and Bar do bring an interesting point, in that we now have a financial dis-incentive to be the first to throw in the towel. You can just sit there, and wait out the other guy. Like out-running your friend trying to outrun a bear, you don't have to be good enough to fly, you just have to be less fatigued than the other guy...
Then you both fall asleep.