Originally Posted by
TheBaron Deux
d. Hotel
i. DomesticNon-Intercontinental Deadheads
A pilot who is scheduled for consecutive non-intercontinental deadheads from and back to the same domestic city, may expense up to 3 nights of hotel use in the contract hotel in lieu of the scheduled deadhead tickets. The hotel use shall be between the scheduled deadheads. Use of a non-contract hotel, and any hotel use for greater than 3 nights, requires prior approval of the pilot'’s ACPFleet Captain, or his designee.
Non-Intercontinental Deadheads include the old Domestic and International. Intra-Asia and Intra-Europe flights fall under this part. Domestic has been dropped and is no longer included in this specific part (that's why it's in red and the new language is in blue. The old International that applied to all international deadheads has been split into International and Intercontinental. See ii of this part for that hotel in lieu of deadhead provision.
You are correct the term Hotel in Lieu still is in the contract. But now instead of international trips being allowed to check in 3 days early in-lieu of their front end DH, or remain 3 days after in-lieu of a DH; the new (8.C.3.d.ii.) non-intercontinental rules, in order to qualify for hotel in lieu, you must have a back end DH from the layover city and the next front end DH to the same city even if you are in an international location. If you do meet those restrictions then you can apply the old (also new) domestic hotel in lieu rules. So if you are in Europe or Asia or Hawaii or Puerto Rico or TLC or etc, you can not longer use the old international hotel in lieu option.
There-by the big losers of that option are the Asia and Europe pilots. Although there's a pretty big HNL usage of the current international hotel in lieu option that will be gone. So if it is a loss for even a small group, wouldn't you call it a give back? Even worse in my book has been the NC answer on the give back of, "it was not the intent of that section, so we changed it." Their answer sounds like we did it to ourselves. ???