And here's a heads up for anyone flying a west coast allnighter into the ATL, or returning from deep south or DXB. Last week they were on a drug/alcohol testing binge, they were hitting a few peeps off every inbound flight, but our notification didn't show up until after engine shutdown!

I was just about to get off the jet, after all the pax, and I returned to the cockpit for one last look to see what I'd forgotten, when I hear the Ping of the printer. I rip off the 4" slip of paper coming out and there's MY name on it, along with 3 of our F/A's!

I'd just completed my PDP! So had all our F/A's, and we were all heading for our commute flights! But we were in F concourse, at 05:30, so we had to go all the way down to the A concourse F/A lounge to be tested. There we found about 20 other crewmembers waiting to be tested.

I had to sit and drink water for about an hour until I could provide the required sample size! Luckily my flt. home wasn't until 8. But I complained to them that they had 15 hours to notify us, and we didn't get the message until after engine shutdown, at 05:30!!??

They claimed they had sent the message at 04:00, soo....?

Next time, I'm going to hold my water until I'm at my homebound flt.'s gate.

Good luck men, we're all counting on you, and hold it until you get through Customs, or risk waiting to gen up another sample.