Originally Posted by
CaptCoolHand
soooooometimes..... Maybe. But not usually.
They called me this am. 0520 phone rang. Mind you his is day 5/5. Limo mco-FLL, fll-Orh. Ok then deadhead to mco? Oh no we're just gonna give you vda for your day off. Vda and JA? No. Yea no. Now I fully expected them to emergency assign me this trip after the 3-5 second pause of confusion. I was put on hold for 3min. Cs guy comes back and tells me that I'm back on short call. They simply just expect you to do these things. Don't be afraid to push back guys. 34 min to beer 30
I'm the FO that got that trip, but I was on VDA yesterday (start a 4 day block of RSV today). Plus they DH'ed me on Silver MCO-FLL. Operate to ORH, 22 hour layover, operate ORH-FLL, limo back to MCO. Didn't realize it when they called me at 5:30, but taking Silver instead of a limo cost me a couple hundred dollars (limo time plus flight time = 6.5 hours vs. 5 hour min/day on Silver).