Originally Posted by
Nantonaku
The legacies probably have something in their contract or an agreement with the company that changing from night to day duty (or vice versa) is both preceded and followed by 2 days off or some adequate amount of rest. There are even regionals with this in their contracts.
You've got rose-colored glasses on. It is quite common for Delta to have rotations with a long AM trans con to the west coast followed by only 12 hours off and then a redeye that night. I'd argue there's a certain segment of our group that loves these and calls them "efficient." I'm sorry to say the company agrees and gleefully creates these trips. Last year on reserve, I was assigned a DH to Vegas with one hour turn time just to work the redeye back to ATL. That was brutal. No contractual protection for that as it fit within our PWA duty and the 117 limits.