Originally Posted by
APC225
LCAL had it in the contract, but I never saw it used in over a decade. Since this UPA section was implemented on 1 Jan it has become routine. No theories on what caused the change other than abuse, but something's changed.
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In the old L-UAL contract, they had to pay 4 hours credit for a field standby, so they seldom used it. It doesn't really cost them anything now.