Originally Posted by
UGBSM
Me neither. Of course you can avoid sit length in PBS and PCS. But
a long sit usually means a long duty day, pushing FAR117 limits. I,ve seen lots of 12:30+ scheduled days with a 13 hour max. Saw a 12:53 scheduled four leg domestic... very common. Pilots routinely accepting extended duty days only encourages this scheduling practice.
I have a 12+59 scheduled for May. Now I believe that is contract duty day and FDP is 12+29. That sound right? That means I have only 31 minutes of slack in my day, right?
And from that Aviation Week article: " In terms of hours and cycles remaining in the design life, Delta could theoretically operate the MD-90s for another 50 years, based on the current dispatch profile."
OH BOY!