Originally Posted by
max gross
You can justify it any way you'd like, but in the end it hurts our pilot group and weakens our bargaining position. What about the captains that live in Seattle but haven't been drooling over their phone? Why not give them a chance to respond?
If they need a reserve assigned to the trip, they'll make sure that happens.
or when they run out of reserves, they'll re-assign someone to cover it off their original trip like just happened to me during my 2 hour sit in MSP. Some FO overslept his showtime so I got to do 2 extra legs and a deadhead to a min rest over night while the rest of my crew enjoyed 17 hours.