Originally Posted by
404yxl
Exactly. You can go ahead and stay on rest for 10+ hours and deviate to get home later. I'm sure plenty others and myself will deviate early to go home to our own bed and families.
If the company wants to schedule it less than 10 hours, great! Now they have no way to touch me. Pre-117 they could get away with 8 hours and no minimum in a hotel room. You want to go back to that?!
1. There is nothing stopping anyone from deviating to an earlier DH with a scheduled layover longer than 9 hours. However, there are numerous issues and situations limiting the ability to deviate to a later DH.
2. The only legal DH deviation is to something earlier, not later. For a reserve for instance, you're clock resets at the completion of scheduled DH, not the later DH if that's what is chosen. Also, crew hotel bookings for follow on crews are predicated on the scheduled layover, not the later DH deviation - i.e. you may be occupying someone else's room if you stay longer than scheduled.
3. The company has to give you 10 hours break from duty completion after the layover whether it was 9 hours or 24 hours. Difference is, now they have you on the hook earlier (if reserve) with the 9 hour layover.
4. Not all 9 hour layovers are front or back end of rotation. Some are in the middle.
5. I thought I made it pretty clear in my earlier post, I do not support going back to a dangerously flawed FAR 121. I do support raising the bar to what other carriers have as minimum layovers.
Finally, do you or have you ever had a position in DALPA?