Originally Posted by iaflyer

I think the problem is that not the whole pilot group is going to fly CDOs. Anyone flying an international airplane (777, 747, 330, 765, and the international 7ER) are very unlikely to ever fly a CDO.

So most likely the smaller the airplane the more likely it would fly a CDO, but not exclusively. In an irrops situation, any domestic reserve could get assigned a CDO, when a 10 hour overnight turns into 7. Make it a CDO with a late departure after the crew times out.

So - when you say "some pilots" sent a rather unambiguous opinion with regards to CDO's" I think it's most likely those pilots who would end up flying them sent feedback to their reps. I know I did.

The international guys probably don't care a whit about it - I'm not going to fly it. They might not even understand what a SDP or CDO is - they think a short overnight is 18 hours. (I'm not blasting the international guys, it's just a different operation than domestic). So the international guys and senior domestic probably didn't give any input, because the chance of them flying one is pretty slim.