Thanks. I didn't know that. I've flown the 88 (with a couple of years on the DC-9) my whole career at Delta. The only redeyes I was familiar with were the few we've had on the 88 and all the midnight rockets coming back to ATL from the west.

Still doesn't change my opinion of ADDING the capability for the company to schedule CDO's. In my opinion, redeyes are already a compromise on safety. (I KNOW they are for me because I've never been able to take naps.) But the reality is that the market demands that we have redeye flights. Somebody has to fly them. CDO's are just late night/early morning flights with crews scheduled in a creative way to get around the FAR rest requirements. It's a loophole in the FAR's (exploited by the airlines) that I don't think was ever intended. I see no reason to make this compromise in safety... especially when the company has other ways they can cover those flights WITHOUT making any compromise in safety.