Originally Posted by
AZFlyer
Thank you for the explanations on that.
To be clear, if you hold a line that allows for dh to your trip, are you losing that time at home just the same as you would if you were a non-revving commuter getting to/from work?
Maybe a different way to say it is:
You get paid for the trip as if you flew it as scheduled, actually deadheading out of and/or into domicile. Nothing you do during a deviation affects the pay.
If you have a trip that starts with a DH to the city in which you live, you stay home until you need to depart in order to report at your local airport one hour prior to the revenue flight. If that is 15 hours after the trip technically started, then you get 15 extra hours at home while you’re already “on the clock”. It’s not a normal practice to have a trip built with a DH right into a revenue leg in the same duty period. So, there is usually a legal layover between the deadhead arrival and the outbound duty period.
If you have a trip that starts with a DH to another city, then you do whatever is necessary to be in that city no less than 8-12 hours prior to report for the outbound revenue flight (18 hours for intercontinental DH). Depending on the circumstances, you may have to leave earlier than when the trip technically begins, or you may capture some extra time at home. Either way, the pay starts when the trip begins on paper. I think most guys leave themselves some backup flights as they would for a normal commute. The nice thing is there isn’t the threat of a last minute bump off the jumpseat since you have a ticket.
Last edited by Adlerdriver; 07-05-2016 at 06:43 PM.